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Wednesday, March 2: 8th and Final Stage, Batu Pahat - Melaka Loop, 119.0 km
Andrea Guardini makes it four stage wins for this Tour de Langkawi
The Race: The organizer provided this explanation.
MELAKA - Andrea Guardini of Astana made it four as he also won the conclusive stage of the 2016 Le Tour de Langkawi in the middle of the historical attractions of Melaka while South Africa’s Reinardt Janse van Rensburg of Dimension Data took the overall classification of the 21st edition of Asia’s premier stage race.
A major event in stage 8 starting from Batu Pahat was the first intermediate sprint at Semerah, km 16. The winner was no less than yellow jersey wearer Janse van Rensburg. Interestingly, veteran climber Francisco Mancebo of Skydive Dubai was second, which enabled him to enter the top 5 overall while Luca Chirico of Bardiani-CSF moved up to the top 10 thanks to his third place at that point of the race.
A breakaway finally took shape after 40km of racing, involving Seo Joo Yong (KSPO), Chiu Ho San (HKSI) and Loh Sea Keong (Malaysia). As the peloton didn’t react, their lead increased to 5.20 only 15km further. Teams Drapac, Astana and Dimension Data combined forces to set the pace of the peloton in order to catch the escapees on time for another conclusive bunch gallop. It was all together with ten kilometers to go.
Melaka’s famous and tiny street Jonker Walk made the fight for positions more complicated than usual, Guardini noted. The Italian commented: “I’m happy to win here again in Melaka. I remember very well when I first did it in 2012. I knew there was a head wind to finish but I sprinted with a good timing. It would have been hard to get better results than four stage wins in eight days of racing. The fights for sprinting have all been highly competitive.”
As he won four stages like last year, Guardini reached the exceptional total of 22 stage victories in six straight participations to Le Tour de Langkawi, a race in which he’s now the iconic rider
Janse van Rensburg won the overall classification in his first attempt. “I was a bit nervous today”, he acknowledged. “I was counting down the kilometers and I was relieved when I saw the 3km to go mark. This is my first stage race victory since 2012 [when he joined the World Tour, firstly with Argos-Shimano]. It’s been a long time. I’m happy with this breakthrough victory. This is definitely the biggest win of my career. It’s a UCI H.C. race, a very important one. It’s a good race with a good organization. I wasn’t sure to come here. I was initially a replacement rider but we came here as defending champions and we’re delighted we’ve made it again.”
Colombians Miguel Angel Lopez of Astana and Daniel Jaramillo of Unitedhealthcare accompanied him on the podium for the top 3 awards. China’s Wang Meiyin of Hengxiang won the King of the Mountains for the second time after 2013. “As a team, we’re thankful to the organizers to have allowed us to ride aggressively during the whole week”, the attacker from the Shandong province said.
For the first time, a Malaysian won the best Asian rider classification even though two splits in the bunch reduced Adiq Hussainie Othman’s advantage to Masakazu Ito to two seconds. “It’s not much but enough to bring the white jersey home and I’m very happy with that”, Adiq explained. “This jersey isn’t only mine, it belongs to the whole team who helped me defend it since stage 4. I’ve worked to lose weight and climb better, now I hope to keep the momentum for the numerous races to come on the Asia Tour.”
The Overall Team classification went to team Unitedhealthcare, while Hengxiang takes the Best Asian Team award.
Once again, champions from all continents have enriched the fame of Malaysia and Le Tour de Langkawi with a positive message delivered to the world.
Complete Results:
119.0 kilometers (74.0 miles) raced at an average speed of 43.83 km/hr (27.25 mph)
1 | Andrea Guardini | Astana | 2hr 42min 55sec |
2 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
3 | Shiki Kuroeda | Aisan | s.t. |
4 | Michal Kolár | Tinkoff | s.t. |
5 | Andrea Palini | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
6 | John Murphy | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
7 | Brenton Jones | Drapac | s.t. |
8 | Paolo Simion | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
9 | Matthew Goss | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
10 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
11 | Ivan Santaromita | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
12 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Dimension Data | s.t. |
13 | Francisco Mancebo | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
14 | Andrea Dal Col | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
15 | Jesper Hansen | Tinkoff | s.t. |
16 | Antonio Piedra | Funvic Soul Cycles | +4sec |
17 | Roland Thalmann | Roth | s.t. |
18 | Laurens De Vreese | Astana | s.t. |
19 | Shinpei Fukuda | Aisan | s.t. |
20 | Erik Baška | Tinkoff | s.t. |
21 | Daniel Jaramillo | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
22 | Lachlan Norris | Drapac | s.t. |
23 | Tanner Putt | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
24 | Jaco Venter | Dimension Data | s.t. |
25 | Jingbiao Zhao | Hengxiang | s.t. |
26 | Jonathon Clarke | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
27 | Tristan Marguet | Roth | s.t. |
28 | Miguel Ángel López | Astana | s.t. |
29 | Janez Brajkovic | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
30 | Mirco Maestri | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
31 | Graeme Brown | Drapac | s.t. |
32 | Luca Chirico | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
33 | Jamalidin Novardianto | Pegasus | s.t. |
34 | Carlos Manarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
35 | Masakazu Ito | Aisan | s.t. |
36 | George Harper | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
37 | Julen Amezqueta | Southeast-Venezuela | +8'' |
38 | Adiq Othman | Terengganu | s.t. |
39 | Hyeon-Seok Kim | KSPO | s.t. |
40 | Valentin Baillifard | Roth | s.t. |
41 | Amirul Marzuki | Terengganu | s.t. |
42 | Tomás Gil | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
43 | Anuar Manan | Terengganu | s.t. |
44 | James Oram | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
45 | Karol Domagalski | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
46 | Tom Scully | Drapac | s.t. |
47 | Joon-Yong Seo | KSPO | s.t. |
48 | Juraj Sagan | Tinkoff | s.t. |
49 | Sung-Baek Park | KSPO | s.t. |
50 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | s.t. |
51 | Marcelo Felipe | 7 Eleven-Sava RBP | s.t. |
52 | John Ebsen | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
53 | Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka | Aisan | s.t. |
54 | Alberto Nardin | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
55 | Amir Rusli | Malaysia | s.t. |
56 | Zhang Zheng | Hengxiang | s.t. |
57 | Giulio Ciccone | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
58 | Simone Sterbini | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
59 | Samuele Conti | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
60 | Shahrul Mat Amin | Terengganu | s.t. |
61 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Aisan | s.t. |
62 | Burr Ho | HKSI | s.t. |
63 | Meiyin Wang | Hengxiang | s.t. |
64 | Nur Aiman Zariff | Malaysia | s.t. |
65 | Arin Iswanna | Pegasus | s.t. |
66 | Jesse Ewart | 7 Eleven-Sava RBP | s.t. |
67 | Sofian Nabil Bakri | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
68 | Songezo Jim | Dimension Data | s.t. |
69 | Choon Huat Goh | Terengganu | s.t. |
70 | Adrien Niyonshuti | Dimension Data | s.t. |
71 | Maher Hasnaoui | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
72 | Guangtong Ma | Hengxiang | s.t. |
73 | Jonipher Ravina | 7 Eleven-Sava RBP | s.t. |
74 | Zawawi Azman | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
75 | Patria Rastra | Pegasus | s.t. |
76 | Harrif Salleh | Terengganu | s.t. |
77 | Evgueni Petrov | Tinkoff | s.t. |
78 | Azri bin Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
79 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
80 | Dylan Page | Roth | s.t. |
81 | Ty Magner | UnitedHealthcare | +22'' |
82 | Siu Wai Ko | HKSI | s.t. |
83 | Francisco Chamorro | Funvic Soul Cycles | +24'' |
84 | Ahmad Mustafa Kamal | NSC-Mycron | +34'' |
85 | Ka Hoo Fung | HKSI | s.t. |
86 | Wenlong Zhang | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
87 | Ho San Chiu | HKSI | s.t. |
88 | Agung Sahbana | Pegasus | s.t. |
89 | Kang-Eun Joo | KSPO | +37'' |
90 | Johann Van Zyl | Dimension Data | +41'' |
91 | Michael Gogl | Tinkoff | +47'' |
92 | Dias Omirzakov | Astana | +1' 00'' |
93 | Francesco Chicchi | Androni Giocattoli | +1' 02'' |
94 | Azman Zulkifli | Malaysia | +1' 23'' |
95 | Wan Yau Lau | HKSI | s.t. |
96 | Mark John Lexer Guevarra | 7 Eleven-Sava RBP | +1' 28'' |
97 | Colin Stüssi | Roth | +1' 42'' |
98 | Afiq Huznie Othman | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
99 | Jens Mouris | Drapac | +2' 02'' |
100 | Xiaolong Sun | Giant-Champion System | +2' 04'' |
101 | Otavio Bulgarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | +2' 18'' |
102 | Luca Pacioni | Androni Giocattoli | +2' 20'' |
103 | Nicolas Dougall | Dimension Data | s.t. |
104 | Takeaki Ayabe | Aisan | +2' 35'' |
105 | Irwandie Lakasek | NSC-Mycron | +2' 40'' |
106 | Mohammed Nazri Muhamad | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
107 | Teten Rohendi | Pegasus | s.t. |
108 | Gavin Mannion | Drapac | +2' 55'' |
109 | Hiu Fung Choy | HKSI | +2' 59'' |
110 | Hyo-Suk Gong | KSPO | +2' 59'' |
111 | Lijun Bai | Giant-Champion System | +3' 21'' |
112 | Richard Handley | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
113 | Marco Bandiera | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
114 | Sea Keong Loh | Malaysia | +4' 19'' |
115 | Meng Yan | Hengxiang | +4' 35'' |
116 | Fuwen Xue | Giant-Champion System | +4' 35'' |
117 | Jianpeng Liu | Hengxiang | +5' 17'' |
118 | Pablo Urtasun | Funvic Soul Cycles | +6' 04'' |
119 | Edgar Nohales | 7 Eleven-Sava RBP | s.t. |
120 | Wenhui Bi | Giant-Champion System | +8' 29'' |
121 | João Gaspar | Funvic Soul Cycles | +9' 57'' |
122 | Kun-Soo Kim | KSPO | DNF |
123 | Ryan MacAnally | Pegasus | DNS |
Final GC after Stage 8:
1,178.0 kilometers (532.54 miles) raced at an average speed of 41.31 km/hr (25.60 mph)
1 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Dimension Data | 28hr 31min 21sec |
2 | Daniel Jaramillo | UnitedHealthcare | +18sec |
3 | Miguel Ángel López | Astana | +19'' |
4 | Francisco Mancebo | Skydive Dubai | +23'' |
5 | Jesper Hansen | Tinkoff | s.t. |
6 | George Harper | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
7 | Ivan Santaromita | Skydive Dubai | +25'' |
8 | Lachlan Norris | Drapac | +29'' |
9 | Luca Chirico | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
10 | Antonio Piedra | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
11 | Janez Brajkovic | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
12 | Jonathon Clarke | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
13 | Julen Amezqueta | Southeast-Venezuela | +35'' |
14 | John Ebsen | One Pro Cycling | +38'' |
15 | Simone Sterbini | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
16 | Jaco Venter | Dimension Data | +44'' |
17 | James Oram | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
18 | Karol Domagalski | One Pro Cycling | +1' 03'' |
19 | Tomás Gil | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
20 | Valentin Baillifard | Roth | +1' 07'' |
21 | Adiq Othman | Terengganu | +1' 10'' |
22 | Masakazu Ito | Aisan | +1' 12'' |
23 | Jingbiao Zhao | Hengxiang | +1' 13'' |
24 | Roland Thalmann | Roth | +1' 17'' |
25 | Alberto Nardin | Androni Giocattoli | +1' 21'' |
26 | Marcelo Felipe | 7 Eleven-Sava RBP | +1' 36'' |
27 | Samuele Conti | Southeast-Venezuela | +1' 38'' |
28 | Laurens De Vreese | Astana | +2' 09'' |
29 | Adrien Niyonshuti | Dimension Data | +2' 24'' |
30 | Johann Van Zyl | Dimension Data | +3' 01'' |
31 | Meiyin Wang | Hengxiang | +3' 14'' |
32 | Evgueni Petrov | Tinkoff | +3' 58'' |
33 | Amirul Marzuki | Terengganu | +4' 11'' |
34 | Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka | Aisan | +4' 15'' |
35 | Colin Stüssi | Roth | +4' 28'' |
36 | Choon Huat Goh | Terengganu | +4' 29'' |
37 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Aisan | +4' 39'' |
38 | Sofian Nabil Bakri | NSC-Mycron | +4' 42'' |
39 | Songezo Jim | Dimension Data | +4' 56'' |
40 | Ho San Chiu | HKSI | +5' 08'' |
41 | Richard Handley | One Pro Cycling | +5' 36'' |
42 | Giulio Ciccone | Bardiani-CSF | +5' 44'' |
43 | Kang-Eun Joo | KSPO | +5' 50'' |
44 | Mark John Lexer Guevarra | 7 Eleven-Sava RBP | +6' 11'' |
45 | Joon-Yong Seo | KSPO | +6' 31'' |
46 | Tom Scully | Drapac | +6' 53'' |
47 | Paolo Simion | Bardiani-CSF | +6' 54'' |
48 | Mirco Maestri | Bardiani-CSF | +7' 08'' |
49 | Nur Aiman Zariff | Malaysia | +7' 37'' |
50 | Burr Ho | HKSI | +7' 49'' |
51 | Zawawi Azman | NSC-Mycron | +8' 17'' |
52 | Nicolas Dougall | Dimension Data | +9' 22'' |
53 | Agung Sahbana | Pegasus | +11' 28'' |
54 | Jianpeng Liu | Hengxiang | +11' 36'' |
55 | Amir Rusli | Malaysia | +11' 42'' |
56 | Ka Hoo Fung | HKSI | +12' 18'' |
57 | Jonipher Ravina | 7 Eleven-Sava RBP | +12' 28'' |
58 | Edgar Nohales | 7 Eleven-Sava RBP | +12' 33'' |
59 | Gavin Mannion | Drapac | +12' 45'' |
60 | Juraj Sagan | Tinkoff | +14' 23'' |
61 | Michael Gogl | Tinkoff | +15' 03'' |
62 | Jesse Ewart | 7 Eleven-Sava RBP | +15' 20'' |
63 | Erik Baška | Tinkoff | +15' 22'' |
64 | Michal Kolár | Tinkoff | +15' 23'' |
65 | Carlos Manarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | +15' 30'' |
66 | Wenlong Zhang | Giant-Champion System | +15' 50'' |
67 | Patria Rastra | Pegasus | +16' 05'' |
68 | Guangtong Ma | Hengxiang | +16' 07'' |
69 | Brenton Jones | Drapac | +16' 25'' |
70 | Mohammed Nazri Muhamad | NSC-Mycron | +17' 07'' |
71 | Shahrul Mat Amin | Terengganu | +17' 32'' |
72 | Luca Pacioni | Androni Giocattoli | +17' 37'' |
73 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast-Venezuela | +18' 06'' |
74 | Sung-Baek Park | KSPO | +18' 15'' |
75 | Jamalidin Novardianto | Pegasus | +18' 27'' |
76 | Hyeon-Seok Kim | KSPO | +18' 34'' |
77 | Teten Rohendi | Pegasus | +19' 12'' |
78 | Siu Wai Ko | HKSI | +19' 33'' |
79 | Francesco Chicchi | Androni Giocattoli | +20' 33'' |
80 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast-Venezuela | +20' 55'' |
81 | Andrea Palini | Skydive Dubai | +20' 57'' |
82 | John Murphy | UnitedHealthcare | +21' 11'' |
83 | Graeme Brown | Drapac | +21' 39'' |
84 | Dylan Page | Roth | +21' 41'' |
85 | Hyo-Suk Gong | KSPO | +22' 29'' |
86 | Xiaolong Sun | Giant-Champion System | +23' 27'' |
87 | Zhang Zheng | Hengxiang | +23' 45'' |
88 | Afiq Huznie Othman | NSC-Mycron | +25' 26'' |
89 | Shinpei Fukuda | Aisan | +26' 28'' |
90 | Harrif Salleh | Terengganu | +26' 32'' |
91 | Ty Magner | UnitedHealthcare | +26' 44'' |
92 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | +26' 47'' |
93 | Wan Yau Lau | HKSI | +27' 26'' |
94 | Sea Keong Loh | Malaysia | +27' 53'' |
95 | Anuar Manan | Terengganu | +28' 09'' |
96 | Andrea Guardini | Astana | +28' 23'' |
97 | Meng Yan | Hengxiang | +28' 38'' |
98 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | +29' 54'' |
99 | Ahmad Mustafa Kamal | NSC-Mycron | +31' 31'' |
100 | Irwandie Lakasek | NSC-Mycron | +32' 41'' |
101 | Maher Hasnaoui | Skydive Dubai | +32' 47'' |
102 | Lijun Bai | Giant-Champion System | +32' 49'' |
103 | Marco Bandiera | Androni Giocattoli | +33' 06'' |
104 | Azri bin Ahmad | Malaysia | +33' 46'' |
105 | Takeaki Ayabe | Aisan | +33' 49'' |
106 | Tanner Putt | UnitedHealthcare | +35' 41'' |
107 | Matthew Goss | One Pro Cycling | +36' 38'' |
108 | Otavio Bulgarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | +36' 47'' |
109 | Azman Zulkifli | Malaysia | +36' 59'' |
110 | Arin Iswanna | Pegasus | +39' 10'' |
111 | Jens Mouris | Drapac | +39' 12'' |
112 | Andrea Dal Col | Southeast-Venezuela | +39' 49'' |
113 | Francisco Chamorro | Funvic Soul Cycles | +42' 30'' |
114 | Wenhui Bi | Giant-Champion System | +44' 16'' |
115 | Shiki Kuroeda | Aisan | +45' 08'' |
116 | Fuwen Xue | Giant-Champion System | +48' 31'' |
117 | João Gaspar | Funvic Soul Cycles | +49' 14'' |
118 | Tristan Marguet | Roth | +52' 05'' |
119 | Dias Omirzakov | Astana | +53' 35'' |
120 | Hiu Fung Choy | HKSI | +59' 15'' |
121 | Pablo Urtasun | Funvic Soul Cycles | +1h 09' 52'' |
Tuesday, March 1: Stage 7, Seremban - Parit Sulong, 202.3 km
Andrea Guardini wins another Langkawi stage
The Race: Here is the organizer's explanation of the day's race.
PARIT SULONG - Astana’s Andrea Guardini claimed his 21st victory at Le Tour de Langkawi in stage 7 of the 21st edition of the event. The Italian outsprinted his compatriots Jakub Mareczko of Southeast and Andrea Palini from Skydive Dubai in a tight finish at Parit Sulong where Reinardt Janse van Rensburg (Dimension Data) retained the overall lead on the eve of the grand finale in the historical city of Melaka.
The longest stage of this year’s race happened to be more eventful than anyone expected it to be. Juraj Sagan of Tinkoff was all fired up after finishing second in stage 6. He initiated a front group of six riders with Tanner Putt (Unitedhealthcare), Karol Domagalski (One Pro Cycling), Ma Guangtong (Hengxiang), Laurens De Vreese (Astana) and Meher Hasnaoui (Skydive Dubai). Former leader Miguel Angel Lopez of Astana who was avid of taking his revenge after losing the yellow jersey because of a mechanical rode flat out in the first hill of the day. He crested Bukit Miku (km 28) in first position with the aim of taking time bonus at the intermediate sprint in Johol (km 46) but Janse van Rensburg also made the front group of 25 riders that was formed after catching the initial attackers.
Six riders went clear before Johol, most of them for the second time of the day: De Vreese, Sagan, Putt, Domagalski, Gong Hyo Suk (KSPO) and Agung Sahbana (Pegasus). Several attacks occurred in that front group and at the head of the peloton led all day by Dimension Data. The maximum lead was 5.20 at km 145 when De Vreese, Putt and Gong were the remaining breakaway riders, rejoined by then by a Chinese duo from Hengxiang with Ma and Zheng Zhang. For most of the stage, De Vreese who was 2.05 adrift on GC was the virtual leader of Le Tour de Langkawi but Janse van Rensburg never panicked.
De Vreese was the last man to surrender with 5km to go, which gave a free ride to Astana’s sprinter Guardini who leapfrogged Mareczko in the last 50 metres. “After what happened yesterday, it’s normal that Miguel Angel was a bit angry but that’s cycling”, the Italian explained. “Astana had such a good tactic today with a strong rider [De Vreese] in the breakaway. Nobody wanted to pull strongly in the finale but it turned out to being a bunch sprint and it was a very good one for me. With 200m to go, I passed in a very small gap between two other riders but a bit of luck is always needed for winning a bunch sprint. To reach 21 victories at Le Tour de Langkawi is really amazing. It’s never simple to win.”
“I didn’t feel the pressure when De Vreese was at the front”, Janse van Rensburg echoed. “I even told my team-mates to slow down sometimes. We didn’t get a lot of help. We also didn’t really want to close the gap. Now we’re just with one stage to go. Anything can still happen because a lot of guys still want to do something but I definitely feel happier today with the work done by my team than yesterday because of the way I took the lead.”
Adiq Husainie Othman of Terengganu is also close to becoming the first Malaysian to win the best Asian competition. “Our sprinters Harrif [Saleh] and Anuar [Manan] are getting better and better every day”, the Dungun-born rider said. “Harrif was fifth yesterday, fourth today, hopefully we’ll get a place on the podium tomorrow. It’s going to be fast, fast and fast in Melaka. I hope to avoid any mechanical and take the white jersey home.”
Stage 8 starting in Batu Pahat will feature 119km including an 8km loop through all historical venues in Melaka.
Complete results:
203.3 kilometers (125.8 miles) raced at an average speed of 42.26 km/hr (26.28 mph)
1 | Andrea Guardini | Astana | 4hr 47min 12sec |
2 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
3 | Andrea Palini | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
4 | Harrif Salleh | Terengganu | s.t. |
5 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Dimension Data | s.t. |
6 | Paolo Simion | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
7 | John Murphy | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
8 | Shinpei Fukuda | Aisan | s.t. |
9 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
10 | Michal Kolár | Tinkoff | s.t. |
11 | Brenton Jones | Drapac | s.t. |
12 | Joon-Yong Seo | KSPO | s.t. |
13 | Luca Chirico | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
14 | Francisco Mancebo | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
15 | Francisco Chamorro | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
16 | Lutfi Fauzan Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
17 | Marcelo Felipe | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
18 | Mirco Maestri | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
19 | Jesper Hansen | Tinkoff | s.t. |
20 | Shahrul Mat Amin | Terengganu | s.t. |
21 | Erik Baška | Tinkoff | s.t. |
22 | Hyeon-Seok Kim | KSPO | s.t. |
23 | Daniel Jaramillo | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
24 | Shiki Kuroeda | Aisan | s.t. |
25 | Miguel Ángel López | Astana | s.t. |
26 | Jaco Venter | Dimension Data | s.t. |
27 | Ivan Santaromita | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
28 | Antonio Piedra | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
29 | Jamalidin Novardianto | Pegasus | s.t. |
30 | Arin Iswanna | Pegasus | s.t. |
31 | Kang-Eun Joo | KSPO | s.t. |
32 | Jingbiao Zhao | Hengxiang | s.t. |
33 | Lachlan Norris | Drapac | s.t. |
34 | Patria Rastra | Pegasus | s.t. |
35 | Irwandie Lakasek | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
36 | Julen Amezqueta | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
37 | George Harper | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
38 | Jonathon Clarke | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
39 | Masakazu Ito | Aisan | s.t. |
40 | Laurens De Vreese | Astana | s.t. |
41 | Adiq Othman | Terengganu | s.t. |
42 | Adrien Niyonshuti | Dimension Data | s.t. |
43 | Jesse Ewart | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
44 | James Oram | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
45 | Janez Brajkovic | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
46 | Valentin Baillifard | Roth | s.t. |
47 | Roland Thalmann | Roth | s.t. |
48 | Tomás Gil | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
49 | Burr Ho | HKSI | s.t. |
50 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Aisan | s.t. |
51 | Anuar Manan | Terengganu | s.t. |
52 | Michael Gogl | Tinkoff | s.t. |
53 | Sofian Nabil Bakri | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
54 | Meiyin Wang | Hengxiang | s.t. |
55 | Ka Hoo Fung | HKSI | s.t. |
56 | Karol Domagalski | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
57 | John Ebsen | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
58 | Dias Omirzakov | Astana | s.t. |
59 | Kun-Soo Kim | KSPO | s.t. |
60 | Ahmad Mustafa Kamal | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
61 | Alberto Nardin | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
62 | Giulio Ciccone | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
63 | Choon Huat Goh | Terengganu | s.t. |
64 | Samuele Conti | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
65 | Zawawi Azman | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
66 | Zhang Zheng | Hengxiang | s.t. |
67 | Amirul Marzuki | Terengganu | s.t. |
68 | Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka | Aisan | s.t. |
69 | Amir Rusli | Malaysia | s.t. |
70 | Carlos Manarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
71 | Edgar Nohales | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
72 | Jonipher Ravina | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
73 | Simone Sterbini | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
74 | Wenlong Zhang | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
75 | Teten Rohendi | Pegasus | s.t. |
76 | Ho San Chiu | HKSI | s.t. |
77 | Mark John Lexer Guevarra | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
78 | Graeme Brown | Drapac | s.t. |
79 | Tom Scully | Drapac | s.t. |
80 | Afiq Huznie Othman | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
81 | Jianpeng Liu | Hengxiang | s.t. |
82 | Hiu Fung Choy | HKSI | +18sec |
83 | Nur Aiman Zariff | Malaysia | s.t. |
84 | Juraj Sagan | Tinkoff | s.t. |
85 | Azman Zulkifli | Malaysia | s.t. |
86 | Maher Hasnaoui | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
87 | Richard Handley | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
88 | Luca Pacioni | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
89 | Agung Sahbana | Pegasus | s.t. |
90 | Matthew Goss | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
91 | Evgueni Petrov | Tinkoff | s.t. |
92 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | +25'' |
93 | Azri bin Ahmad | Malaysia | +30'' |
94 | Fuwen Xue | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
95 | Nicolas Dougall | Dimension Data | +36'' |
96 | Wan Yau Lau | HKSI | +40'' |
97 | Sung-Baek Park | KSPO | +44'' |
98 | Otavio Bulgarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
99 | Andrea Dal Col | Southeast-Venezuela | +57'' |
100 | Takeaki Ayabe | Aisan | s.t. |
101 | Johann Van Zyl | Dimension Data | +1' 02'' |
102 | Songezo Jim | Dimension Data | s.t. |
103 | Mohammed Nazri Muhamad | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
104 | Xiaolong Sun | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
105 | João Gaspar | Funvic Soul Cycles | +1' 06'' |
106 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
107 | Ty Magner | UnitedHealthcare | +1' 07'' |
108 | Gavin Mannion | Drapac | s.t. |
109 | Sea Keong Loh | Malaysia | s.t. |
110 | Pablo Urtasun | Funvic Soul Cycles | +1' 21'' |
111 | Jens Mouris | Drapac | +1' 37'' |
112 | Tristan Marguet | Roth | +1' 39'' |
113 | Hyo-Suk Gong | KSPO | +1' 41'' |
114 | Siu Wai Ko | HKSI | s.t. |
115 | Marco Bandiera | Androni Giocattoli | +2' 21'' |
116 | Francesco Chicchi | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
117 | Colin Stüssi | Roth | s.t. |
118 | Dylan Page | Roth | s.t. |
119 | Guangtong Ma | Hengxiang | +4' 13'' |
120 | Tanner Putt | UnitedHealthcare | +4' 41'' |
121 | Ryan MacAnally | Pegasus | s.t. |
122 | Lijun Bai | Giant-Champion System | +6' 34'' |
123 | Meng Yan | Hengxiang | s.t. |
124 | Wenhui Bi | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
GC after Stage 7:
1,059.0 kilometers (658.54 miles) raced so far at an average speed of 41.04 km/hr (25.52 mph).
1 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Dimension Data | 25hr 48min 29sec |
2 | Daniel Jaramillo | UnitedHealthcare | +11sec |
3 | Miguel Ángel López | Astana | +12'' |
4 | George Harper | One Pro Cycling | +16'' |
5 | Jesper Hansen | Tinkoff | +20'' |
6 | Francisco Mancebo | Skydive Dubai | +22'' |
7 | Lachlan Norris | Drapac | s.t. |
8 | Janez Brajkovic | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
9 | Ivan Santaromita | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
10 | Antonio Piedra | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
11 | Jonathon Clarke | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
12 | Luca Chirico | Bardiani CSF | +23'' |
13 | Julen Amezqueta | Southeast-Venezuela | +24'' |
14 | John Ebsen | One Pro Cycling | +27'' |
15 | Simone Sterbini | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
16 | James Oram | One Pro Cycling | +33'' |
17 | Jaco Venter | Dimension Data | +37'' |
18 | Karol Domagalski | One Pro Cycling | +52'' |
19 | Tomás Gil | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
20 | Valentin Baillifard | Roth | +56'' |
21 | Adiq Othman | Terengganu | +59'' |
22 | Masakazu Ito | Aisan | +1' 05'' |
23 | Jingbiao Zhao | Hengxiang | +1' 06'' |
24 | Roland Thalmann | Roth | +1' 10'' |
25 | Alberto Nardin | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
26 | Marcelo Felipe | 7-Eleven | +1' 25'' |
27 | Samuele Conti | Southeast-Venezuela | +1' 27'' |
28 | Laurens De Vreese | Astana | +2' 02'' |
29 | Richard Handley | One Pro Cycling | +2' 12'' |
30 | Adrien Niyonshuti | Dimension Data | +2' 13'' |
31 | Johann Van Zyl | Dimension Data | +2' 17'' |
32 | Colin Stüssi | Roth | +2' 43'' |
33 | Meiyin Wang | Hengxiang | +3' 03'' |
34 | Evgueni Petrov | Tinkoff | +3' 47'' |
35 | Amirul Marzuki | Terengganu | +4' 00'' |
36 | Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka | Aisan | +4' 04'' |
37 | Choon Huat Goh | Terengganu | +4' 18'' |
38 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Aisan | +4' 28'' |
39 | Sofian Nabil Bakri | NSC-Mycron | +4' 31'' |
40 | Ho San Chiu | HKSI | +4' 35'' |
41 | Mark John Lexer Guevarra | 7-Eleven | +4' 40'' |
42 | Songezo Jim | Dimension Data | +4' 45'' |
43 | Kang-Eun Joo | KSPO | +5' 10'' |
44 | Lutfi Fauzan Ahmad | Malaysia | +5' 27'' |
45 | Giulio Ciccone | Bardiani CSF | +5' 33'' |
46 | Jianpeng Liu | Hengxiang | +6' 16'' |
47 | Joon-Yong Seo | KSPO | +6' 26'' |
48 | Edgar Nohales | 7-Eleven | +6' 26'' |
49 | Tom Scully | Drapac | +6' 42'' |
50 | Paolo Simion | Bardiani CSF | +6' 51'' |
51 | Nicolas Dougall | Dimension Data | +6' 59'' |
52 | Mirco Maestri | Bardiani CSF | +7' 01'' |
53 | Nur Aiman Zariff | Malaysia | +7' 26'' |
54 | Burr Ho | HKSI | +7' 38'' |
55 | Zawawi Azman | NSC-Mycron | +8' 06'' |
56 | Gavin Mannion | Drapac | +9' 47'' |
57 | Agung Sahbana | Pegasus | +10' 51'' |
58 | Amir Rusli | Malaysia | +11' 31'' |
59 | Ka Hoo Fung | HKSI | +11' 41'' |
60 | Jonipher Ravina | 7-Eleven | +12' 17'' |
61 | Juraj Sagan | Tinkoff | +14' 12'' |
62 | Michael Gogl | Tinkoff | +14' 13'' |
63 | Mohammed Nazri Muhamad | NSC-Mycron | +14' 24'' |
64 | Jesse Ewart | 7-Eleven | +15' 09'' |
65 | Wenlong Zhang | Giant-Champion System | +15' 13'' |
66 | Luca Pacioni | Androni Giocattoli | +15' 14'' |
67 | Erik Baška | Tinkoff | +15' 15'' |
68 | Michal Kolár | Tinkoff | +15' 20'' |
69 | Carlos Manarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | +15' 23'' |
70 | Patria Rastra | Pegasus | +15' 54'' |
71 | Guangtong Ma | Hengxiang | +15' 56'' |
72 | Brenton Jones | Drapac | +16' 22'' |
73 | Teten Rohendi | Pegasus | +16' 29'' |
74 | Shahrul Mat Amin | Terengganu | +17' 21'' |
75 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast-Venezuela | +17' 55'' |
76 | Sung-Baek Park | KSPO | +18' 04'' |
77 | Jamalidin Novardianto | Pegasus | +18' 20'' |
78 | Hyeon-Seok Kim | KSPO | +18' 23'' |
79 | Siu Wai Ko | HKSI | +19' 08'' |
80 | Hyo-Suk Gong | KSPO | +19' 27'' |
81 | Francesco Chicchi | Androni Giocattoli | +19' 28'' |
82 | Andrea Palini | Skydive Dubai | +20' 54'' |
83 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast-Venezuela | +20' 58'' |
84 | John Murphy | UnitedHealthcare | +21' 08'' |
85 | Xiaolong Sun | Giant-Champion System | +21' 20'' |
86 | Dylan Page | Roth | +21' 30'' |
87 | Graeme Brown | Drapac | +21' 32'' |
88 | Kun-Soo Kim | KSPO | +22' 52'' |
89 | Sea Keong Loh | Malaysia | +23' 33'' |
90 | Zhang Zheng | Hengxiang | +23' 34'' |
91 | Afiq Huznie Othman | NSC-Mycron | +23' 41'' |
92 | Meng Yan | Hengxiang | +24' 00'' |
93 | Wan Yau Lau | HKSI | +26' 00'' |
94 | Ty Magner | UnitedHealthcare | +26' 19'' |
95 | Shinpei Fukuda | Aisan | +26' 21'' |
96 | Harrif Salleh | Terengganu | +26' 21'' |
97 | Ryan MacAnally | Pegasus | +26' 31'' |
98 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | +26' 44'' |
99 | Anuar Manan | Terengganu | +27' 58'' |
100 | Andrea Guardini | Astana | +28' 30'' |
101 | Lijun Bai | Giant-Champion System | +29' 25'' |
102 | Marco Bandiera | Androni Giocattoli | +29' 42'' |
103 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | +29' 43'' |
104 | Irwandie Lakasek | NSC-Mycron | +29' 58'' |
105 | Ahmad Mustafa Kamal | NSC-Mycron | +30' 54'' |
106 | Takeaki Ayabe | Aisan | +31' 11'' |
107 | Maher Hasnaoui | Skydive Dubai | +32' 36'' |
108 | Azri bin Ahmad | Malaysia | +33' 35'' |
109 | Otavio Bulgarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | +34' 26'' |
110 | Azman Zulkifli | Malaysia | +35' 33'' |
111 | Tanner Putt | UnitedHealthcare | +35' 34'' |
112 | Wenhui Bi | Giant-Champion System | +35' 44'' |
113 | Matthew Goss | One Pro Cycling | +36' 35'' |
114 | Jens Mouris | Drapac | +37' 07'' |
115 | Arin Iswanna | Pegasus | +38' 59'' |
116 | João Gaspar | Funvic Soul Cycles | +39' 14'' |
117 | Andrea Dal Col | Southeast-Venezuela | +39' 46'' |
118 | Francisco Chamorro | Funvic Soul Cycles | +42' 03'' |
119 | Fuwen Xue | Giant-Champion System | +43' 53'' |
120 | Shiki Kuroeda | Aisan | +45' 09'' |
121 | Tristan Marguet | Roth | +51' 58'' |
122 | Dias Omirzakov | Astana | +52' 32'' |
123 | Hiu Fung Choy | HKSI | +56' 13'' |
124 | Pablo Urtasun | Funvic Soul Cycles | +1h 03' 45'' |
Monday, February 29: Stage 6, Putrajaya - Rembau, 147.6 km
Jakub Mareczko wins stage 6
The Race: The organizer provided this narrative.
REMBAU - In a very eventful stage 6 in the 21st Le Tour de Langkawi, Jakub Mareczko of Southeast claimed his first ever victory in the Malaysian event he’s taking part in for the second time while a mechanical incident with 6km to go deprived Colombia’s Miguel Angel Lopez from Astana of the overall lead. South Africa Reinardt Janse van Rensburg racing for Dimension Data took over although he was victim of a crash with 500 metres to go, which prevented him from contesting the stage victory he was looking for. Juraj Sagan of Tinkoff and Dylan Page from Roth finished second and third respectively in Rembau.
It was a very different stage from the scenarios Le Tour de Langkawi is used to. Songezo Jim (Dimension Data), Michael Gogl (Tinkoff), James Oram (One Pro Cycling), Mirco Maestri (Bardiani-CSF), Tim Scully (Drapac), Gong Hyo Suk (KSPO), Amirul Mazuki (Terengganu), joined by Giuseppe Fonzi (Southeast) formed a breakaway after ten kilometres of racing. They were about to get caught by the peloton led by Unitedhealthcare but Maestri and Gong insisted. They were reinforced by Adrien Niyonshuti (Dimension Data), Gogl again, Tanner Putt (Unitedhealthcare) and Julen Amezqueta (Southeast).
Putt rode away solo from that group but it was George Harper of One Pro Cycling who passed the last King of the Mountain sprint in first position with 8km to go at Bukit Miku. He was caught in the downhill where Lopez had a broken wheel with 6km to go. The race leader chased hard but couldn’t return to the peloton before the sprint. It was an acrobatic one with a sharp u-turn. Mareczko made the best of it.
“It’s been a bit difficult for me to take part in the sprints early on because there have been a few crashes, but today finally I managed to make it”, the Italian commented. “Today there were more KOM primes than usual. It wasn’t easy to hold the place but my teammates kept me in the main group. In the last few corners in the run in to the finish, I stayed in the first three so I was in the right position for sprinting.”
It was a day for new names to appear on the results sheet. “It was a very nervous sprint”, Page explained. “I use my brakes the best I could to get this result, which is a great one for me since I’m a neo pro and we’re a new team in this category of racing. I crashed on stage 2 and I’ve struggled to sleep since but I’m back! This race has a great organisation. It’s a super Tour!”
Sagan isn’t exactly a new name in cycling but Peter’s elder brother Juraj isn’t usually the one who gets on stage to receive the laurels. “I’m always helping others”, the Slovakian said. “But today I had the green light because our sprinter Michael Kolar had a flat tyre with 7km to go. This is my first international result as a pro. I’m quite happy with it.”
Andrea Guardini didn’t contest the sprint. “I was a bit full gas at 15km to go and I took the decision to leave this stage for rest and try to win another stage – tomorrow or the last stage”, the leader of the points competition said. This was harder than the other stages. It’s unfortunate than my team-mate Lopez lost the yellow jersey due to a mechanical but that’s part of cycling.”
It resulted in a change of leadership in the overall ranking. “I am really sorry for Lopez to lose the jersey in such a way”, Janse van Rensburg noted. “It is not the nicest way to take the jersey. I was looking forward to a bit more of a battle for the jersey, but I guess it’s cycling… But after the line I was a little bit disappointed because I missed my chance to go for the victory today. Some guys went straight into me in the corner, so I didn’t make the corner at 500m to go. My chain was off after that so I had to stop to put it back on.
“It is kind of bitter sweet today, but yeah … I take it as it comes. The race changes now completely for us. We are going to have to defend. The bunch is really getting aggressive now, so I think it’s going to be quite a big fight tomorrow, and there is quite a climb early on. So we are going to have to be top of our game coming out.”
Stage 7 from Seremban to Parit Sulong is the longest of the event with 202.3km.
Complete Results:
147.60 kilometers (91.79 miles) raced at an average speed of 41.38 km/hr (25.73mph)
1 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast-Venezuela | 3hr 34min 1sec |
2 | Juraj Sagan | Tinkoff | s.t. |
3 | Dylan Page | Roth | s.t. |
4 | John Murphy | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
5 | Harrif Salleh | Terengganu | s.t. |
6 | Ryan MacAnally | Pegasus | s.t. |
7 | Brenton Jones | Drapac | s.t. |
8 | Francesco Chicchi | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
9 | Paolo Simion | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
10 | Andrea Palini | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
11 | Joon-Yong Seo | KSPO | s.t. |
12 | Karol Domagalski | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
13 | Shinpei Fukuda | Aisan | s.t. |
14 | Daniel Jaramillo | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
15 | Jaco Venter | Dimension Data | s.t. |
16 | Luca Chirico | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
17 | Lachlan Norris | Drapac | s.t. |
18 | Francisco Mancebo | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
19 | Jingbiao Zhao | Hengxiang | s.t. |
20 | Ivan Santaromita | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
21 | Antonio Piedra | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
22 | Jamalidin Novardianto | Pegasus | s.t. |
23 | George Harper | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
24 | Lutfi Fauzan Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
25 | Shahrul Mat Amin | Terengganu | s.t. |
26 | James Oram | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
27 | Kang-Eun Joo | KSPO | s.t. |
28 | Adiq Othman | Terengganu | s.t. |
29 | Jesper Hansen | Tinkoff | s.t. |
30 | Hyeon-Seok Kim | KSPO | s.t. |
31 | Graeme Brown | Drapac | s.t. |
32 | Alberto Nardin | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
33 | Amirul Marzuki | Terengganu | s.t. |
34 | Tomás Gil | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
35 | Janez Brajkovic | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
36 | Jonathon Clarke | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
37 | Masakazu Ito | Aisan | s.t. |
38 | Julen Amezqueta | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
39 | Roland Thalmann | Roth | s.t. |
40 | Valentin Baillifard | Roth | s.t. |
41 | Giulio Ciccone | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
42 | Amir Rusli | Malaysia | s.t. |
43 | Meiyin Wang | Hengxiang | s.t. |
44 | Tom Scully | Drapac | s.t. |
45 | Samuele Conti | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
46 | Simone Sterbini | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
47 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Aisan | s.t. |
48 | Luca Pacioni | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
49 | John Ebsen | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
50 | Xiaolong Sun | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
51 | Jianpeng Liu | Hengxiang | s.t. |
52 | Edgar Nohales | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
53 | Nur Aiman Zariff | Malaysia | s.t. |
54 | Colin Stüssi | Roth | s.t. |
55 | Johann Van Zyl | Dimension Data | s.t. |
56 | Mirco Maestri | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
57 | Songezo Jim | Dimension Data | s.t. |
58 | Marcelo Felipe | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
59 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
60 | Anuar Manan | Terengganu | s.t. |
61 | Evgueni Petrov | Tinkoff | s.t. |
62 | Takeaki Ayabe | Aisan | s.t. |
63 | Miguel Ángel López | Astana | +35sec |
64 | Ho San Chiu | HKSI | +39'' |
65 | Mark John Lexer Guevarra | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
66 | Jonipher Ravina | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
67 | Adrien Niyonshuti | Dimension Data | s.t. |
68 | Choon Huat Goh | Terengganu | s.t. |
69 | Richard Handley | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
70 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Dimension Data | s.t. |
71 | Burr Ho | HKSI | s.t. |
72 | Afiq Huznie Othman | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
73 | Jesse Ewart | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
74 | Zhang Zheng | Hengxiang | s.t. |
75 | Otavio Bulgarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
76 | Agung Sahbana | Pegasus | s.t. |
77 | Sofian Nabil Bakri | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
78 | Zawawi Azman | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
79 | Teten Rohendi | Pegasus | s.t. |
80 | Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka | Aisan | s.t. |
81 | Patria Rastra | Pegasus | s.t. |
82 | Lijun Bai | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
83 | Nicolas Dougall | Dimension Data | s.t. |
84 | Laurens De Vreese | Astana | s.t. |
85 | Sung-Baek Park | KSPO | +45'' |
86 | Azman Zulkifli | Malaysia | +1' 16'' |
87 | Mohammed Nazri Muhamad | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
88 | Michal Kolár | Tinkoff | s.t. |
89 | Jens Mouris | Drapac | s.t. |
90 | Ty Magner | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
91 | Gavin Mannion | Drapac | +1' 25'' |
92 | Marco Bandiera | Androni Giocattoli | +1' 27'' |
93 | Hyo-Suk Gong | KSPO | +1' 54'' |
94 | Guangtong Ma | Hengxiang | s.t. |
95 | Siu Wai Ko | HKSI | s.t. |
96 | Ka Hoo Fung | HKSI | +4' 22'' |
97 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | +4' 34'' |
98 | Irwandie Lakasek | NSC-Mycron | +4' 50'' |
99 | Wenlong Zhang | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
100 | Maher Hasnaoui | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
101 | Arin Iswanna | Pegasus | s.t. |
102 | Kun-Soo Kim | KSPO | s.t. |
103 | Erik Baška | Tinkoff | s.t. |
104 | Wan Yau Lau | HKSI | s.t. |
105 | Hiu Fung Choy | HKSI | s.t. |
106 | Meng Yan | Hengxiang | s.t. |
107 | João Gaspar | Funvic Soul Cycles | +4' 55'' |
108 | Wenhui Bi | Giant-Champion System | +4' 55'' |
109 | Andrea Guardini | Astana | +7' 54'' |
110 | Michael Gogl | Tinkoff | s.t. |
111 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
112 | Francisco Chamorro | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
113 | Carlos Manarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
114 | Azri bin Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
115 | Andrea Dal Col | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
116 | Ahmad Mustafa Kamal | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
117 | Shiki Kuroeda | Aisan | s.t. |
118 | Fuwen Xue | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
119 | Sea Keong Loh | Malaysia | s.t. |
120 | Tanner Putt | UnitedHealthcare | +8' 20'' |
121 | Matthew Goss | One Pro Cycling | +9' 17'' |
122 | Pablo Urtasun | Funvic Soul Cycles | +9' 55'' |
123 | Tristan Marguet | Roth | s.t. |
124 | Dias Omirzakov | Astana | +12' 24'' |
GC after Stage 6:
856.7 kilometers (532.74 miles) raced so far at an average speed of 40.76 km/hr (25.35 mph)
1 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Dimension Data | 21hr 1min 17sec |
2 | Daniel Jaramillo | UnitedHealthcare | +11sec |
3 | Miguel Ángel López | Astana | +12'' |
4 | George Harper | One Pro Cycling | +16'' |
5 | Jesper Hansen | Tinkoff | +20'' |
6 | Lachlan Norris | Drapac | +22'' |
7 | Francisco Mancebo | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
8 | Janez Brajkovic | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
9 | Ivan Santaromita | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
10 | Antonio Piedra | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
11 | Jonathon Clarke | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
12 | Luca Chirico | Bardiani CSF | +23'' |
13 | Julen Amezqueta | Southeast-Venezuela | +24'' |
14 | John Ebsen | One Pro Cycling | +27'' |
15 | Simone Sterbini | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
16 | James Oram | One Pro Cycling | +33'' |
17 | Jaco Venter | Dimension Data | +37'' |
18 | Tomás Gil | Southeast-Venezuela | +52'' |
19 | Karol Domagalski | One Pro Cycling | +55'' |
20 | Valentin Baillifard | Roth | +56'' |
21 | Adiq Othman | Terengganu | +59'' |
22 | Masakazu Ito | Aisan | +1' 05'' |
23 | Jingbiao Zhao | Hengxiang | +1' 06'' |
24 | Roland Thalmann | Roth | +1' 10'' |
25 | Alberto Nardin | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
26 | Johann Van Zyl | Dimension Data | +1' 15'' |
27 | Marcelo Felipe | 7-Eleven | +1' 25'' |
28 | Samuele Conti | Southeast-Venezuela | +1' 27'' |
29 | Richard Handley | One Pro Cycling | +1' 54'' |
30 | Laurens De Vreese | Astana | +2' 06'' |
31 | Adrien Niyonshuti | Dimension Data | +2' 13'' |
32 | Colin Stüssi | Roth | +2' 43'' |
33 | Meiyin Wang | Hengxiang | +3' 03'' |
34 | Evgueni Petrov | Tinkoff | +3' 29'' |
35 | Songezo Jim | Dimension Data | +3' 43'' |
36 | Amirul Marzuki | Terengganu | +4' 00'' |
37 | Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka | Aisan | +4' 04'' |
38 | Choon Huat Goh | Terengganu | +4' 18'' |
39 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Aisan | +4' 28'' |
40 | Sofian Nabil Bakri | NSC-Mycron | +4' 31'' |
41 | Ho San Chiu | HKSI | +4' 35'' |
42 | Mark John Lexer Guevarra | 7-Eleven | +4' 40'' |
43 | Kang-Eun Joo | KSPO | +5' 10'' |
44 | Lutfi Fauzan Ahmad | Malaysia | +5' 27'' |
45 | Giulio Ciccone | Bardiani CSF | +5' 33'' |
46 | Jianpeng Liu | Hengxiang | +6' 16'' |
47 | Nicolas Dougall | Dimension Data | +6' 23'' |
48 | Joon-Yong Seo | KSPO | +6' 26'' |
49 | Edgar Nohales | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
50 | Tom Scully | Drapac | +6' 42'' |
51 | Paolo Simion | Bardiani CSF | +6' 51'' |
52 | Mirco Maestri | Bardiani CSF | +7' 01'' |
53 | Nur Aiman Zariff | Malaysia | +7' 08'' |
54 | Burr Ho | HKSI | +7' 38'' |
55 | Zawawi Azman | NSC-Mycron | +8' 06'' |
56 | Gavin Mannion | Drapac | +8' 40'' |
57 | Agung Sahbana | Pegasus | +10' 33'' |
58 | Amir Rusli | Malaysia | +11' 31'' |
59 | Ka Hoo Fung | HKSI | +11' 41'' |
60 | Guangtong Ma | Hengxiang | +11' 43'' |
61 | Jonipher Ravina | 7-Eleven | +12' 17'' |
62 | Mohammed Nazri Muhamad | NSC-Mycron | +13' 22'' |
63 | Juraj Sagan | Tinkoff | +13' 55'' |
64 | Michael Gogl | Tinkoff | +14' 13'' |
65 | Luca Pacioni | Androni Giocattoli | +14' 56'' |
66 | Jesse Ewart | 7-Eleven | +15' 09'' |
67 | Wenlong Zhang | Giant-Champion System | +15' 13'' |
68 | Erik Baška | Tinkoff | +15' 15'' |
69 | Michal Kolár | Tinkoff | +15' 20'' |
70 | Carlos Manarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | +15' 23'' |
71 | Patria Rastra | Pegasus | +15' 54'' |
72 | Brenton Jones | Drapac | +16' 22'' |
73 | Teten Rohendi | Pegasus | +16' 29'' |
74 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast-Venezuela | +16' 49'' |
75 | Sung-Baek Park | KSPO | +17' 20'' |
76 | Shahrul Mat Amin | Terengganu | +17' 21'' |
77 | Meng Yan | Hengxiang | +17' 26'' |
78 | Hyo-Suk Gong | KSPO | +17' 49'' |
79 | Jamalidin Novardianto | Pegasus | +18' 20'' |
80 | Hyeon-Seok Kim | KSPO | +18' 23'' |
81 | Siu Wai Ko | HKSI | +19' 08'' |
82 | Francesco Chicchi | Androni Giocattoli | +19' 28'' |
83 | Xiaolong Sun | Giant-Champion System | +20' 18'' |
84 | Andrea Palini | Skydive Dubai | +20' 58'' |
85 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast-Venezuela | +21' 04'' |
86 | John Murphy | UnitedHealthcare | +21' 08'' |
87 | Dylan Page | Roth | +21' 30'' |
88 | Graeme Brown | Drapac | +21' 32'' |
89 | Sea Keong Loh | Malaysia | +22' 26'' |
90 | Lijun Bai | Giant-Champion System | +22' 51'' |
91 | Kun-Soo Kim | KSPO | +22' 52'' |
92 | Zhang Zheng | Hengxiang | +23' 37'' |
93 | Afiq Huznie Othman | NSC-Mycron | +23' 41'' |
94 | Ty Magner | UnitedHealthcare | +25' 12'' |
95 | Wan Yau Lau | HKSI | +25' 20'' |
96 | Shinpei Fukuda | Aisan | +26' 21'' |
97 | Harrif Salleh | Terengganu | +26' 21'' |
98 | Ryan MacAnally | Pegasus | +26' 31'' |
99 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | +26' 44'' |
100 | Marco Bandiera | Androni Giocattoli | +27' 21'' |
101 | Anuar Manan | Terengganu | +27' 58'' |
102 | Andrea Guardini | Astana | +28' 40'' |
103 | Wenhui Bi | Giant-Champion System | +28' 50'' |
104 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | +29' 18'' |
105 | Irwandie Lakasek | NSC-Mycron | +29' 58'' |
106 | Ahmad Mustafa Kamal | NSC-Mycron | +30' 54'' |
107 | Tanner Putt | UnitedHealthcare | +30' 57'' |
108 | Takeaki Ayabe | Aisan | +31' 11'' |
109 | Maher Hasnaoui | Skydive Dubai | +32' 18'' |
110 | Azri bin Ahmad | Malaysia | +33' 05'' |
111 | Otavio Bulgarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | +33' 42'' |
112 | Azman Zulkifli | Malaysia | +35' 15'' |
113 | Jens Mouris | Drapac | +35' 30'' |
114 | Matthew Goss | One Pro Cycling | +36' 17'' |
115 | João Gaspar | Funvic Soul Cycles | +38' 08'' |
116 | Andrea Dal Col | Southeast-Venezuela | +38' 49'' |
117 | Arin Iswanna | Pegasus | +38' 59'' |
118 | Francisco Chamorro | Funvic Soul Cycles | +42' 03'' |
119 | Fuwen Xue | Giant-Champion System | +43' 23'' |
120 | Shiki Kuroeda | Aisan | +45' 09'' |
121 | Tristan Marguet | Roth | +50' 19'' |
122 | Dias Omirzakov | Astana | +52' 32'' |
123 | Hiu Fung Choy | HKSI | +55' 55'' |
124 | Pablo Urtasun | Funvic Soul Cycles | +1h 02' 24'' |
Sunday, March 28: Stage 5, Tapah - Kuala Lumpur, 148.8 km
Andrea Guardini wins stage 5
The Race: As told by the race organizer.
KUALA LUMPUR - Andrea Guardini became the first rider to reach the number of 20 stage victories at Le Tour de Langkawi – out of 37 in total in his six-year long pro career at the age of 26 – as he claimed the sprinters’ queen stage at Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur, making it four out of four on the race’s most prestigious venue. Coming third while stage 2 winner Andrea Palini finished second, South Africa’s Reinardt Janse van Rensburg who is second overall to Colombia’s Miguel Angel Lopez diminished his deficit from 29 to 23 seconds with three stages remaining.
It took 63 kilometres for the breakaway of the day to take shape. Beforehand, Guardini had to go for the first intermediate sprint against Janse van Rensburg to protect the overall lead of his team-mate Lopez. The Dimension Data fast man took two seconds there but sustained a flat tyre 2km before the second intermediate sprint, so Guardini could give way to the riders fighting for fifth place overall. Bardiani’s Luca Chirico and Jesper Hansen captured three and two seconds bonus respectively. Then it was time for breaking away.
Racing for the King of the Mountains competition, Wang Meiyin (Hengxiang) rode on the offensive again, and once again with Loh Sea Keong who was accompanied by another rider from Malaysia national team Aiman. Amirul Mazuki (Terengganu) and Kim Hyeonseok (KSPO) were the other members of the move before Carlos Manarelli (Funvic) rejoined them to compose a six-man front group. They had a maximum advantage of 3.20 at km 77.
In the finale, John Ebsen and Richard Handley, both from One Pro Cycling, came across to the two remaining leaders Loh and Amirul. They got reined in nearby the famous twin towers of Kuala Lumpur.
The inevitable bunch sprint was easily won by Guardini. “It’s a wonderful day for me and a perfect fourth win here on my favourite finishing line of Le Tour de Langkawi”, the Italian declared. “Every time I come to Kuala Lumpur, I win, it’s fantastic. With 20km to go, my mind was all set on this finish location. I could feel a lot of adrenaline in the run in. I knew exactly where I needed to pass my adversaries to outsprint them. We took control of the race and I had a really good sprint.”
“It was a very fast stage again”, Superman Lopez – his nickname – commented. “I’ve lost a little bit of time on GC but we caught the breakaway riders by profiting from the work of the other teams too. I’m happy to retain the yellow jersey and to realize that the flag of [the Federal Territory of] Kuala Lumpur is exactly the same as Colombia’s at the exception of the heraldry in the middle. I feel much welcome in Malaysia.”
Malaysia’s Adiq Hussainie Othman also retained the lead of the best Asian rider classification. “I was a bit nervous in the race today with [Masakazu] Ito and Zhao Jingbiao only at six and seven seconds”, the Terengganu rider from Dungun explained. “I had a big problem with my bicycle so I got it changed after 80km and it went well till the end.
Tomorrow it’s the most complicated day to defend the white jersey but I’ve reckoned the course at training and it should be no problem as long as there’s no technical issue. It was emotionally fabulous to hear people shouting my name loud on the road sides today. It felt like Adiq was everywhere!”
At the finishing line, Youth and Sport Minister YB Khairy Jamaluddin emphasized the great popular success of LTdL this year. Stage 6 will be held from Putrajaya, the home of the Malaysian government, to Rembau (147km) on a lumpy terrain likely to make the race very interesting.
Complete Results: all 125 starters finished.
148.8 kilometers (92.53 miles) raced at an average speed of 44.90 km/hr (27.92 mph)
1 | Andrea Guardini | Astana | 3hr 18min 50sec |
2 | Andrea Palini | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
3 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Dimension Data | s.t. |
4 | Erik Baška | Tinkoff | s.t. |
5 | Brenton Jones | Drapac | s.t. |
6 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
7 | Paolo Simion | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
8 | Francesco Chicchi | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
9 | Dylan Page | Roth | s.t. |
10 | Anuar Manan | Terengganu | s.t. |
11 | Tanner Putt | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
12 | John Murphy | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
13 | Shinpei Fukuda | Aisan | s.t. |
14 | Sung-Baek Park | KSPO | s.t. |
15 | Karol Domagalski | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
16 | Daniel Jaramillo | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
17 | Michal Kolár | Tinkoff | s.t. |
18 | Joon-Yong Seo | KSPO | s.t. |
19 | Francisco Mancebo | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
20 | Luca Chirico | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
21 | Miguel Ángel López | Astana | s.t. |
22 | Mirco Maestri | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
23 | Ivan Santaromita | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
24 | Ryan MacAnally | Pegasus | s.t. |
25 | Adiq Othman | Terengganu | s.t. |
26 | Laurens De Vreese | Astana | s.t. |
27 | Hyeon-Seok Kim | KSPO | s.t. |
28 | Burr Ho | HKSI | s.t. |
29 | Antonio Piedra | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
30 | Julen Amezqueta | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
31 | Marcelo Felipe | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
32 | Patria Rastra | Pegasus | s.t. |
33 | Janez Brajkovic | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
34 | James Oram | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
35 | Lachlan Norris | Drapac | s.t. |
36 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
37 | Masakazu Ito | Aisan | s.t. |
38 | Wenlong Zhang | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
39 | Jesper Hansen | Tinkoff | s.t. |
40 | Jingbiao Zhao | Hengxiang | s.t. |
41 | Francisco Chamorro | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
42 | Lutfi Fauzan Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
43 | Jaco Venter | Dimension Data | s.t. |
44 | Kang-Eun Joo | KSPO | s.t. |
45 | Evgueni Petrov | Tinkoff | s.t. |
46 | Sofian Nabil Bakri | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
47 | Azri bin Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
48 | Siu Wai Ko | HKSI | s.t. |
49 | Valentin Baillifard | Roth | s.t. |
50 | Roland Thalmann | Roth | s.t. |
51 | Jonathon Clarke | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
52 | Alberto Nardin | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
53 | Tomás Gil | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
54 | Amir Rusli | Malaysia | s.t. |
55 | Jamalidin Novardianto | Pegasus | s.t. |
56 | Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka | Aisan | s.t. |
57 | Teten Rohendi | Pegasus | s.t. |
58 | John Ebsen | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
59 | Guangtong Ma | Hengxiang | s.t. |
60 | Simone Sterbini | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
61 | Maher Hasnaoui | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
62 | Adrien Niyonshuti | Dimension Data | s.t. |
63 | Juraj Sagan | Tinkoff | s.t. |
64 | George Harper | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
65 | Edgar Nohales | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
66 | Samuele Conti | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
67 | Kun-Soo Kim | KSPO | s.t. |
68 | Jonipher Ravina | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
69 | Meng Yan | Hengxiang | s.t. |
70 | Ho San Chiu | HKSI | +14sec |
71 | Ka Hoo Fung | HKSI | s.t. |
72 | Ahmad Mustafa Kamal | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
73 | Richard Handley | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
74 | Colin Stüssi | Roth | s.t. |
75 | Choon Huat Goh | Terengganu | s.t. |
76 | Xiaolong Sun | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
77 | Jesse Ewart | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
78 | Amirul Marzuki | Terengganu | s.t. |
79 | Agung Sahbana | Pegasus | s.t. |
80 | Giulio Ciccone | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
81 | Jianpeng Liu | Hengxiang | s.t. |
82 | Mark John Lexer Guevarra | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
83 | Johann Van Zyl | Dimension Data | s.t. |
84 | Graeme Brown | Drapac | s.t. |
85 | Matthew Goss | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
86 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
87 | Songezo Jim | Dimension Data | +14'' |
88 | Wenhui Bi | Giant-Champion System | +20'' |
89 | Hiu Fung Choy | HKSI | +22'' |
90 | Azman Zulkifli | Malaysia | s.t. |
91 | Wan Yau Lau | HKSI | s.t. |
92 | Afiq Huznie Othman | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
93 | Andrea Dal Col | Southeast-Venezuela | +25'' |
94 | Luca Pacioni | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
95 | Lijun Bai | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
96 | Pablo Urtasun | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
97 | Irwandie Lakasek | NSC-Mycron | +29'' |
98 | Nur Aiman Zariff | Malaysia | s.t. |
99 | Tom Scully | Drapac | +31'' |
100 | Ty Magner | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
101 | Michael Gogl | Tinkoff | +35'' |
102 | Hyo-Suk Gong | KSPO | +49'' |
103 | Mohammed Nazri Muhamad | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
104 | Fuwen Xue | Giant-Champion System | +53'' |
105 | Zawawi Azman | NSC-Mycron | s.t. |
106 | Arin Iswanna | Pegasus | s.t. |
107 | Lukas Jaun | Roth | +53'' |
108 | Carlos Manarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
109 | Dias Omirzakov | Astana | s.t. |
110 | Nicolas Dougall | Dimension Data | s.t. |
111 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Aisan | s.t. |
112 | Gavin Mannion | Drapac | +1' 04'' |
113 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | +1' 07'' |
114 | Takeaki Ayabe | Aisan | +1' 12'' |
115 | Sea Keong Loh | Malaysia | +1' 18'' |
116 | Jens Mouris | Drapac | +2' 02'' |
117 | Harrif Salleh | Terengganu | s.t. |
118 | Shahrul Mat Amin | Terengganu | +2' 06'' |
119 | Meiyin Wang | Hengxiang | s.t. |
120 | Otavio Bulgarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | +3' 08'' |
121 | João Gaspar | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
122 | Zhang Zheng | Hengxiang | s.t. |
123 | Tristan Marguet | Roth | +4' 19'' |
124 | Marco Bandiera | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
125 | Shiki Kuroeda | Aisan | +4' 30'' |
GC after Stage 5:
709.1 kilometers (440.95 miles) raced so far at an average speed of 40.64 km/hr (25.27 mph)
1 | Miguel Ángel López | Astana | 17hr 26min 53sec |
2 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Dimension Data | +23sec |
3 | Daniel Jaramillo | UnitedHealthcare | +34'' |
4 | George Harper | One Pro Cycling | +39'' |
5 | Jesper Hansen | Tinkoff | +43'' |
6 | Janez Brajkovic | UnitedHealthcare | +45'' |
7 | Lachlan Norris | Drapac | s.t. |
8 | Francisco Mancebo | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
9 | Ivan Santaromita | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
10 | Antonio Piedra | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
11 | Jonathon Clarke | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
12 | Luca Chirico | Bardiani CSF | +46'' |
13 | Julen Amezqueta | Southeast-Venezuela | +50'' |
14 | John Ebsen | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
15 | Simone Sterbini | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
16 | Jaco Venter | Dimension Data | +1' 00'' |
17 | James Oram | One Pro Cycling | +1' 02'' |
18 | Tomás Gil | Southeast-Venezuela | +1' 15'' |
19 | Karol Domagalski | One Pro Cycling | +1' 18'' |
20 | Valentin Baillifard | Roth | +1' 19'' |
21 | Adiq Othman | Terengganu | +1' 22'' |
22 | Masakazu Ito | Aisan | +1' 28'' |
23 | Jingbiao Zhao | Hengxiang | +1' 29'' |
24 | Roland Thalmann | Roth | +1' 33'' |
25 | Alberto Nardin | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
26 | Richard Handley | One Pro Cycling | +1' 38'' |
27 | Johann Van Zyl | Dimension Data | s.t. |
28 | Marcelo Felipe | 7-Eleven | +1' 48'' |
29 | Laurens De Vreese | Astana | +1' 50'' |
30 | Samuele Conti | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
31 | Adrien Niyonshuti | Dimension Data | +1' 59'' |
32 | Colin Stüssi | Roth | +3' 06'' |
33 | Meiyin Wang | Hengxiang | +3' 26'' |
34 | Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka | Aisan | +3' 48'' |
35 | Evgueni Petrov | Tinkoff | +3' 52'' |
36 | Choon Huat Goh | Terengganu | +4' 02'' |
37 | Songezo Jim | Dimension Data | +4' 06'' |
38 | Sofian Nabil Bakri | NSC-Mycron | +4' 15'' |
39 | Ho San Chiu | HKSI | +4' 19'' |
40 | Amirul Marzuki | Terengganu | +4' 24'' |
41 | Mark John Lexer Guevarra | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
42 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Aisan | +4' 51'' |
43 | Kang-Eun Joo | KSPO | +5' 33'' |
44 | Lutfi Fauzan Ahmad | Malaysia | +5' 50'' |
45 | Giulio Ciccone | Bardiani CSF | +5' 56'' |
46 | Nicolas Dougall | Dimension Data | +6' 07'' |
47 | Jianpeng Liu | Hengxiang | +6' 39'' |
48 | Michael Gogl | Tinkoff | +6' 42'' |
49 | Joon-Yong Seo | KSPO | +6' 49'' |
50 | Edgar Nohales | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
51 | Tom Scully | Drapac | +7' 05'' |
52 | Paolo Simion | Bardiani CSF | +7' 14'' |
53 | Burr Ho | HKSI | +7' 22'' |
54 | Mirco Maestri | Bardiani CSF | +7' 25'' |
55 | Nur Aiman Zariff | Malaysia | +7' 31'' |
56 | Gavin Mannion | Drapac | +7' 38'' |
57 | Ka Hoo Fung | HKSI | +7' 42'' |
58 | Zawawi Azman | NSC-Mycron | +7' 50'' |
59 | Carlos Manarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | +7' 52'' |
60 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast-Venezuela | +9' 18'' |
61 | Agung Sahbana | Pegasus | +10' 17'' |
62 | Wenlong Zhang | Giant-Champion System | +10' 46'' |
63 | Erik Baška | Tinkoff | +10' 48'' |
64 | Amir Rusli | Malaysia | +11' 54'' |
65 | Jonipher Ravina | 7-Eleven | +12' 01'' |
66 | Guangtong Ma | Hengxiang | +12' 06'' |
67 | Mohammed Nazri Muhamad | NSC-Mycron | +12' 29'' |
68 | Meng Yan | Hengxiang | +12' 59'' |
69 | Juraj Sagan | Tinkoff | +14' 24'' |
70 | Michal Kolár | Tinkoff | +14' 27'' |
71 | Jesse Ewart | 7-Eleven | +14' 53'' |
72 | Sea Keong Loh | Malaysia | +14' 55'' |
73 | Luca Pacioni | Androni Giocattoli | +15' 19'' |
74 | Patria Rastra | Pegasus | +15' 38'' |
75 | Teten Rohendi | Pegasus | +16' 13'' |
76 | Hyo-Suk Gong | KSPO | +16' 23'' |
77 | Brenton Jones | Drapac | +16' 45'' |
78 | Sung-Baek Park | KSPO | +16' 58'' |
79 | Shahrul Mat Amin | Terengganu | +17' 44'' |
80 | Kun-Soo Kim | KSPO | +18' 25'' |
81 | Jamalidin Novardianto | Pegasus | +18' 43'' |
82 | Hyeon-Seok Kim | KSPO | +18' 46'' |
83 | Siu Wai Ko | HKSI | +19' 31'' |
84 | Francesco Chicchi | Androni Giocattoli | +19' 51'' |
85 | Xiaolong Sun | Giant-Champion System | +20' 41'' |
86 | Wan Yau Lau | HKSI | +20' 53'' |
87 | Andrea Guardini | Astana | +21' 09'' |
88 | Andrea Palini | Skydive Dubai | +21' 21'' |
89 | John Murphy | UnitedHealthcare | +21' 31'' |
90 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast-Venezuela | +21' 37'' |
91 | Graeme Brown | Drapac | +21' 55'' |
92 | Dylan Page | Roth | +21' 57'' |
93 | Lijun Bai | Giant-Champion System | +22' 35'' |
94 | Tanner Putt | UnitedHealthcare | +23' 00'' |
95 | Zhang Zheng | Hengxiang | +23' 21'' |
96 | Ahmad Mustafa Kamal | NSC-Mycron | +23' 23'' |
97 | Afiq Huznie Othman | NSC-Mycron | +23' 25'' |
98 | Wenhui Bi | Giant-Champion System | +24' 18'' |
99 | Ty Magner | UnitedHealthcare | +24' 19'' |
100 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | +25' 07'' |
101 | Irwandie Lakasek | NSC-Mycron | +25' 31'' |
102 | Azri bin Ahmad | Malaysia | +25' 34'' |
103 | Marco Bandiera | Androni Giocattoli | +26' 17'' |
104 | Shinpei Fukuda | Aisan | +26' 44'' |
105 | Harrif Salleh | Terengganu | s.t. |
106 | Ryan MacAnally | Pegasus | +26' 54'' |
107 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | +27' 07'' |
108 | Matthew Goss | One Pro Cycling | +27' 23'' |
109 | Maher Hasnaoui | Skydive Dubai | +27' 51'' |
110 | Anuar Manan | Terengganu | +28' 21'' |
111 | Andrea Dal Col | Southeast-Venezuela | +31' 18'' |
112 | Takeaki Ayabe | Aisan | +31' 34'' |
113 | Otavio Bulgarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | +33' 26'' |
114 | João Gaspar | Funvic Soul Cycles | +33' 36'' |
115 | Lukas Jaun | Roth | +34' 16'' |
116 | Azman Zulkifli | Malaysia | +34' 22'' |
117 | Francisco Chamorro | Funvic Soul Cycles | +34' 32'' |
118 | Arin Iswanna | Pegasus | s.t. |
119 | Jens Mouris | Drapac | +34' 37'' |
120 | Fuwen Xue | Giant-Champion System | +35' 52'' |
121 | Shiki Kuroeda | Aisan | +37' 38'' |
122 | Dias Omirzakov | Astana | +40' 11'' |
123 | Tristan Marguet | Roth | +40' 47'' |
124 | Hiu Fung Choy | HKSI | +51' 28'' |
125 | Pablo Urtasun | Funvic Soul Cycles | +52' 52'' |
Saturday, February 27: Stage 4, Ipoh - Cameron Highlands, 129.4 km (80.47 miles)
Miguel Angel Lopez wins at Cameron Highlands
The Race: here's organizer's telling of the stage story.
TANAH RATA, CAMERON HIGHLANDS - Astana managed to complete the double task of winning flat and mountain stages with Miguel Angel Lopez reaching Tanah Rata in a brilliant solo effort after Andrea Guardini opened the record book of the 2016 Le Tour de Langkawi in Baling on day 1. With an advantage of 29 seconds over South Africa’s Reinardt Janse van Rensburg from Dimension Data, the young Colombian has what it takes to become the overall winner of the 21st edition on March 2nd in Melaka.
After a breakaway attempt involving Wang Meiyin (Hangxiang) and Luca Chirico (Bardiani-CSF) that could mean a threat to the favourites, three riders went clear after 24 kilometres of racing: Ho Burr (HKSI), Shiki Kuroeda (Aisan) and Lukas Jaun (Roth). The peloton didn’t react until they reached a maximum advantage of 6.27 at km 45. Three riders formed a counter attack on the way up to the Cameron Highlands with the inevitable Wang being accompanied by Donaben Goh (Terengganu) and Loh Sea Keong (Malaysia). As the trio caught the first escapees, only Ho was able to handle their rhythm.
Wang, Loh, Ho and Goh passed the first category climb of Ringlet in that order. Wang and Goh were the last two breakaway riders caught by the main peloton in the final climb to Tanah Rata. With 5km to go, Lopez attacked in the steepest part of the climb. Johnny Clarke of Unitedhealthcare bridged the gap so the Colombian had to accelerate once again 3km before the line while his compatriot Daniel Jaramillo, also from Unitedhealthcare, chased him down but had to be content with the second place.
“It was a very fast stage”, Lopez commented. “I had to justify my team-mates’ dedication. With one rider less, it wasn’t easy to do so much work to make me win up here, but I attacked where I was told to do so. This is a very important victory for me. To start the season well will give me a lot of confidence and serenity for my further goals, the main one being the Vuelta a España.”
“Miguel Angel did a really good job and I’m happy for him because he’s a really good guy”, Guardini echoed after he retained the teal jersey of the points classification. “We wanted to play our cards as soon as possible in Le Tour de Langkawi, even though it’s hard to catch all the breakaways.”
For the first time, a Malaysian became the best Asian rider after the queen stage. “I thank my coach Adam Szabo, my team Terengganu, my family and my wife who came to watch me racing today”, said Adiq Hussainie Othman. “I wouldn’t be here without them. I’ve worked hard and lost a lot of weight to do well in this queen stage of Le Tour de Langkawi. I prefer long climbs like this one than steep ones like Genting. I did my best to stay in the first group. Now I’ll try to make history in becoming the first Malaysian to win the best Asian competition.”
Stage 5 will take the riders from Tapah to Kuala Lumpur with a detour in town under the iconic towers and the traditional finish at Dataran Merdeka. This is considered the sprinters’ queen stage. “It’s my favourite finish”, Guardini warned. “I’ve won it three times out of three. I want to make it four.”
Complete results:
129.4 km (80.47 miles) raced at an average speed of 37.76 km/hr (23.48 mph)
1 | Miguel Ángel López | Astana | 3hr 25min 37sec |
2 | Daniel Jaramillo | UnitedHealthcare | +30sec |
3 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Dimension Data | +35'' |
4 | Francisco Mancebo | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
5 | Jonathon Clarke | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
6 | Giulio Ciccone | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
7 | George Harper | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
8 | Jesper Hansen | Tinkoff | s.t. |
9 | Luca Chirico | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
10 | Janez Brajkovic | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
11 | Lachlan Norris | Drapac | s.t. |
12 | Antonio Piedra | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
13 | John Ebsen | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
14 | Julen Amezqueta | Southeast Venezuela | s.t. |
15 | Hyo-Suk Gong | KSPO | s.t. |
16 | Ivan Santaromita | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
17 | Simone Sterbini | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
18 | Jaco Venter | Dimension Data | +50'' |
19 | Tomás Gil | Southeast Venezuela | +1' 00'' |
20 | Valentin Baillifard | Roth | +1' 04'' |
21 | James Oram | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
22 | Colin Stüssi | Roth | +1' 09'' |
23 | Karol Domagalski | One Pro Cycling | +1' 14'' |
24 | Adiq Othman | Terengganu | s.t. |
25 | Kang-Eun Joo | KSPO | s.t. |
26 | Richard Handley | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
27 | Jingbiao Zhao | Hengxiang | s.t. |
28 | Johann Van Zyl | Dimension Data | s.t. |
29 | Masakazu Ito | Aisan | +1' 18'' |
30 | Alberto Nardin | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
31 | Jianpeng Liu | Hengxiang | s.t. |
32 | Roland Thalmann | Roth | s.t. |
33 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Aisan | +1' 35'' |
34 | Laurens De Vreese | Astana | s.t. |
35 | Samuele Conti | Southeast Venezuela | s.t. |
36 | Marcelo Felipe | 7-Eleven | +1' 44'' |
37 | Adrien Niyonshuti | Dimension Data | s.t. |
38 | Agung Sahbana | Pegasus | s.t. |
39 | Ka Hoo Fung | HKSI | +2' 03'' |
40 | Jonipher Ravina | 7-Eleven | +3' 30'' |
41 | Meiyin Wang | Hengxiang | s.t. |
42 | Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka | Aisan | +3' 33'' |
43 | Nicolas Dougall | Dimension Data | +3' 37'' |
44 | Songezo Jim | Dimension Data | s.t. |
45 | Mark John Lexer Guevarra | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
46 | Evgueni Petrov | Tinkoff | s.t. |
47 | Michael Gogl | Tinkoff | s.t. |
48 | Choon Huat Goh | Terengganu | s.t. |
49 | Ho San Chiu | HKSI | +3' 50'' |
50 | Sofian Nabil Bakri | NSC - Mycron | +3' 55'' |
51 | Amirul Marzuki | Terengganu | s.t. |
52 | Jamalidin Novardianto | Pegasus | +3' 57'' |
53 | Lutfi Fauzan Ahmad | Malaysia | +5' 40'' |
54 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast Venezuela | +6' 19'' |
55 | Tom Scully | Drapac | s.t. |
56 | Gavin Mannion | Drapac | s.t. |
57 | Edgar Nohales | 7-Eleven | +6' 34'' |
58 | Joon-Yong Seo | KSPO | +6' 45'' |
59 | Carlos Manarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | +6' 47'' |
60 | Nur Aiman Zariff | Malaysia | s.t. |
61 | Amir Rusli | Malaysia | s.t. |
62 | Mohammed Nazri Muhamad | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
63 | Mirco Maestri | Bardiani CSF | +7' 10'' |
64 | Paolo Simion | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
65 | Burr Ho | HKSI | s.t. |
66 | Zawawi Azman | NSC - Mycron | +7' 35'' |
67 | Meng Yan | Hengxiang | +7' 52'' |
68 | Wenhui Bi | Giant-Champion System | +9' 01'' |
69 | Jesse Ewart | 7-Eleven | +9' 14'' |
70 | Sea Keong Loh | Malaysia | +9' 37'' |
71 | Kun-Soo Kim | KSPO | +9' 43'' |
72 | Patria Rastra | Pegasus | +10' 31'' |
73 | Shahrul Mat Amin | Terengganu | s.t. |
74 | Wenlong Zhang | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
75 | Marco Bandiera | Androni Giocattoli | +10' 33'' |
76 | Erik Baška | Tinkoff | s.t. |
77 | Teten Rohendi | Pegasus | +11' 06'' |
78 | Juraj Sagan | Tinkoff | +11' 37'' |
79 | Afiq Huznie Othman | NSC - Mycron | +11' 51'' |
80 | Guangtong Ma | Hengxiang | s.t. |
81 | Sung-Baek Park | KSPO | s.t. |
82 | Brenton Jones | Drapac | +14' 24'' |
83 | Michal Kolár | Tinkoff | s.t. |
84 | Siu Wai Ko | HKSI | s.t. |
85 | Luca Pacioni | Androni Giocattoli | +14' 50'' |
86 | Francesco Chicchi | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
87 | Ahmad Mustafa Kamal | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
88 | Hyeon-Seok Kim | KSPO | s.t. |
89 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | s.t. |
90 | Wan Yau Lau | HKSI | +14' 58'' |
91 | Maher Hasnaoui | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
92 | Xiaolong Sun | Giant-Champion System | +15' 02'' |
93 | Zhang Zheng | Hengxiang | s.t. |
94 | Irwandie Lakasek | NSC - Mycron | +19' 55'' |
95 | Takeaki Ayabe | Aisan | +20' 33'' |
96 | Graeme Brown | Drapac | +21' 37'' |
97 | Andrea Guardini | Astana | s.t. |
98 | Harrif Salleh | Terengganu | s.t. |
99 | Dias Omirzakov | Astana | s.t. |
100 | Andrea Palini | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
101 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast Venezuela | s.t. |
102 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
103 | Matthew Goss | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
104 | Hiu Fung Choy | HKSI | s.t. |
105 | Azri bin Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
106 | Tristan Marguet | Roth | s.t. |
107 | Lukas Jaun | Roth | s.t. |
108 | Dylan Page | Roth | s.t. |
109 | Otavio Bulgarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
110 | Ryan MacAnally | Pegasus | s.t. |
111 | Ty Magner | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
112 | Arin Iswanna | Pegasus | s.t. |
113 | Shinpei Fukuda | Aisan | s.t. |
114 | Francisco Chamorro | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
115 | John Murphy | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
116 | Tanner Putt | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
117 | Lijun Bai | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
118 | Fuwen Xue | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
119 | Jens Mouris | Drapac | s.t. |
120 | Andrea Dal Col | Southeast Venezuela | +22' 34'' |
121 | Anuar Manan | Terengganu | +23' 14'' |
122 | Shiki Kuroeda | Aisan | +23' 14'' |
123 | João Gaspar | Funvic Soul Cycles | +27' 43'' |
124 | Pablo Urtasun | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
125 | Azman Zulkifli | Malaysia | +29' 45'' |
126 | Murad Tarek Obaid | Skydive Dubai | +58' 22 (OTL) |
127 | Nicola Ruffoni | Bardiani CSF | DNF |
Complete GC after Stage 4:
560.3 kilometers (348.42 miles) raced so far at an average speed of 39.64 km/hr (24.65 mph)
1 | Miguel Ángel López | Astana | 14hr 8min 3sec |
2 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Dimension Data | +29sec |
3 | Daniel Jaramillo | UnitedHealthcare | +34'' |
4 | George Harper | One Pro Cycling | +39'' |
5 | Jesper Hansen | Tinkoff | +45'' |
6 | Janez Brajkovic | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
7 | Lachlan Norris | Drapac | s.t. |
8 | Francisco Mancebo | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
9 | Antonio Piedra | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
10 | Ivan Santaromita | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
11 | Jonathon Clarke | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
12 | Luca Chirico | Bardiani CSF | +49'' |
13 | Julen Amezqueta | Southeast Venezuela | +50'' |
14 | John Ebsen | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
15 | Simone Sterbini | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
16 | Jaco Venter | Dimension Data | +1' 00'' |
17 | James Oram | One Pro Cycling | +1' 02'' |
18 | Tomás Gil | Southeast Venezuela | +1' 15'' |
19 | Karol Domagalski | One Pro Cycling | +1' 18'' |
20 | Valentin Baillifard | Roth | +1' 19'' |
21 | Adiq Othman | Terengganu | +1' 22'' |
22 | Richard Handley | One Pro Cycling | +1' 24'' |
23 | Johann Van Zyl | Dimension Data | s.t. |
24 | Masakazu Ito | Aisan | +1' 28'' |
25 | Jingbiao Zhao | Hengxiang | +1' 29'' |
26 | Roland Thalmann | Roth | +1' 33'' |
27 | Alberto Nardin | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
28 | Marcelo Felipe | 7-Eleven | +1' 48'' |
29 | Laurens De Vreese | Astana | +1' 50'' |
30 | Samuele Conti | Southeast Venezuela | s.t. |
31 | Adrien Niyonshuti | Dimension Data | +1' 59'' |
32 | Colin Stüssi | Roth | +2' 52'' |
33 | Meiyin Wang | Hengxiang | +3' 28'' |
34 | Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka | Aisan | +3' 48'' |
35 | Choon Huat Goh | Terengganu | +3' 48'' |
36 | Songezo Jim | Dimension Data | +3' 52'' |
37 | Evgueni Petrov | Tinkoff | s.t. |
38 | Ho San Chiu | HKSI | +4' 05'' |
39 | Amirul Marzuki | Terengganu | s.t. |
40 | Mark John Lexer Guevarra | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
41 | Sofian Nabil Bakri | NSC - Mycron | +4' 15'' |
42 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Aisan | +5' 08'' |
43 | Nicolas Dougall | Dimension Data | +5' 14'' |
44 | Kang-Eun Joo | KSPO | +5' 33'' |
45 | Giulio Ciccone | Bardiani CSF | +5' 42'' |
46 | Lutfi Fauzan Ahmad | Malaysia | +5' 50'' |
47 | Michael Gogl | Tinkoff | +6' 07'' |
48 | Jianpeng Liu | Hengxiang | +6' 25'' |
49 | Gavin Mannion | Drapac | +6' 34'' |
50 | Tom Scully | Drapac | s.t. |
51 | Joon-Yong Seo | KSPO | +6' 49'' |
52 | Edgar Nohales | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
53 | Carlos Manarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | +7' 02'' |
54 | Nur Aiman Zariff | Malaysia | s.t. |
55 | Paolo Simion | Bardiani CSF | +7' 14'' |
56 | Burr Ho | HKSI | +7' 22'' |
57 | Mirco Maestri | Bardiani CSF | +7' 25'' |
58 | Ka Hoo Fung | HKSI | +7' 28'' |
59 | Zawawi Azman | NSC - Mycron | +7' 50'' |
60 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast Venezuela | +9' 04'' |
61 | Agung Sahbana | Pegasus | +10' 03'' |
62 | Wenlong Zhang | Giant-Champion System | +10' 46'' |
63 | Erik Baška | Tinkoff | +10' 48'' |
64 | Amir Rusli | Malaysia | +11' 54'' |
65 | Jonipher Ravina | 7-Eleven | +12' 01'' |
66 | Guangtong Ma | Hengxiang | +12' 06'' |
67 | Mohammed Nazri Muhamad | NSC - Mycron | +12' 29'' |
68 | Meng Yan | Hengxiang | +12' 59'' |
69 | Sea Keong Loh | Malaysia | +13' 37'' |
70 | Juraj Sagan | Tinkoff | +14' 24'' |
71 | Michal Kolár | Tinkoff | +14' 28'' |
72 | Jesse Ewart | 7-Eleven | +14' 39'' |
73 | Luca Pacioni | Androni Giocattoli | +14' 54'' |
74 | Hyo-Suk Gong | KSPO | +15' 34'' |
75 | Patria Rastra | Pegasus | +15' 38'' |
76 | Shahrul Mat Amin | Terengganu | s.t. |
77 | Teten Rohendi | Pegasus | +16' 13'' |
78 | Brenton Jones | Drapac | +16' 45'' |
79 | Sung-Baek Park | KSPO | +16' 58'' |
80 | Kun-Soo Kim | KSPO | +18' 25'' |
81 | Jamalidin Novardianto | Pegasus | +18' 43'' |
82 | Hyeon-Seok Kim | KSPO | +18' 47'' |
83 | Siu Wai Ko | HKSI | +19' 31'' |
84 | Francesco Chicchi | Androni Giocattoli | +19' 51'' |
85 | Xiaolong Sun | Giant-Champion System | +20' 27'' |
86 | Wan Yau Lau | HKSI | +20' 31'' |
87 | Andrea Guardini | Astana | +21' 22'' |
88 | Andrea Palini | Skydive Dubai | +21' 27'' |
89 | John Murphy | UnitedHealthcare | +21' 31'' |
90 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast Venezuela | +21' 37'' |
91 | Graeme Brown | Drapac | +21' 41'' |
92 | Dylan Page | Roth | +21' 57'' |
93 | Marco Bandiera | Androni Giocattoli | +21' 58'' |
94 | Lijun Bai | Giant-Champion System | +22' 10'' |
95 | Tanner Putt | UnitedHealthcare | +23' 00'' |
96 | Afiq Huznie Othman | NSC - Mycron | +23' 03'' |
97 | Ahmad Mustafa Kamal | NSC - Mycron | +23' 09'' |
98 | Zhang Zheng | Hengxiang | +23' 21'' |
99 | Ty Magner | UnitedHealthcare | +23' 48'' |
100 | Wenhui Bi | Giant-Champion System | +23' 58'' |
101 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | +24' 00'' |
102 | Irwandie Lakasek | NSC - Mycron | +25' 02'' |
103 | Azri bin Ahmad | Malaysia | +25' 34'' |
104 | Harrif Salleh | Terengganu | +26' 44'' |
105 | Shinpei Fukuda | Aisan | s.t. |
106 | Ryan MacAnally | Pegasus | +26' 54'' |
107 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | +27' 07'' |
108 | Matthew Goss | One Pro Cycling | +27' 10'' |
109 | Maher Hasnaoui | Skydive Dubai | +27' 51'' |
110 | Anuar Manan | Terengganu | +28' 21'' |
111 | Otavio Bulgarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | +30' 18'' |
112 | Takeaki Ayabe | Aisan | +30' 22'' |
113 | João Gaspar | Funvic Soul Cycles | +30' 28'' |
114 | Andrea Dal Col | Southeast Venezuela | +30' 53'' |
115 | Jens Mouris | Drapac | +32' 35'' |
116 | Shiki Kuroeda | Aisan | +33' 08'' |
117 | Lukas Jaun | Roth | +33' 23'' |
118 | Azman Zulkifli | Malaysia | +34' 00'' |
119 | Francisco Chamorro | Funvic Soul Cycles | +34' 32'' |
120 | Arin Iswanna | Pegasus | s.t. |
121 | Fuwen Xue | Giant-Champion System | +34' 59'' |
122 | Tristan Marguet | Roth | +36' 28'' |
123 | Dias Omirzakov | Astana | +39' 18'' |
124 | Hiu Fung Choy | HKSI | +51' 06'' |
125 | Pablo Urtasun | Funvic Soul Cycles | +52' 27'' |
Friday, February 26: Stage 3, Kalum - Kuala Kangsar, 107.2 km (66.66 miles)
John Murphy wins Langkawi stage 3
The Race: Here's the organizer's explanation of the stage.
KUALA KANGSAR - American cyclist John Murphy fended off the Italian sprinters on stage 3 of the 21st Le Tour de Langkawi as he proved himself faster and smarter than Francesco Chicchi, Jakub Mareczko and Andrea Guardini. The latter retained the yellow jersey of race leader ahead of the queen stage to the Cameron Highlands.
A leading trio opened the road for 100 out of 107km of racing from Kulim to Kuala Kangsar, formed of Donaben Goh (Terengganu), James Oram (One Pro Cycling) and Joao Pereira (Funvic-Soul-Carrefour). They reached a maximum lead of 3.40 after 29km. Oram was impressive as forged on in the finale with Goh on his wheel but the pair got reined in 2km before the finish.
The key of the sprint was a position on the right side of the road due some wind blowing from the left. Murphy was at the right place and claimed his first ever stage victory at Le Tour de Langkawi after beating last year’s young star Caleb Ewan in the conclusive stage of the Herald Sun Tour earlier this month in Australia.
“The Unitedhealthcare Pro Cycling team was phenomenal today”, Murphy emphasized. “The guys did an awesome job keeping me in pole position all day, keeping me hydrated in the heat, giving me mars bars… I was in a really good position in the last corner. I had a great lead out. It was a drag race, that’s what I like. It’s a wonderful finish for me and my team. I’m very happy to win here in Malaysia. I’m having an amazing time. It’s a beautiful country and we’ll keep on racing till the end.”
Guardini was happy to keep the yellow jersey but surprisingly, rather than expressing his disappointment, he was full of praise for the day’s winner. “In Unitedhealthcare, we’ve now found a team that can pull with us”, the Italian said. “They do a really good job for their sprinter. I quickly understood how difficult it would be to win the sprint when I launched mine. I started and stayed in the same position I was in.”
Chicchi and Mareczko looked more affected by the defeat. “I’m disappointed”, Chicchi commented. “I’ve had to launched from a bit too far out. Unitedhealthcare did a perfect job. They went to the right, protected by the barriers while I was in the middle of the road going slightly uphill and exposed to the side wind. I have lost because of my too strong desire to win.”
“I was in fourth position at the last curve then I got a bit lost in the sprint”, Mareczko described. “I recovered some positions and managed to pass Guardini but I couldn’t get better than third.”
Guardini and Murphy made themselves available for helping their respective Colombian team-mate in stage 4 from Ipoh to the Cameron Highlands. Miguel Angel Lopez will become Astana’s leader while Unitedhealthcare has more than one card to play with Colombia’s Daniel Jaramillo but also Janez Brajkovic and Johnny Clarke.
Complete Results:
107.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.73 km/hr (26.57 mph)
1 | John Murphy | UnitedHealthcare | 2hr 30min 31sec |
2 | Francesco Chicchi | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
3 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
4 | Michal Kolár | Tinkoff | s.t. |
5 | Andrea Guardini | Astana | s.t. |
6 | Shiki Kuroeda | Aisan | s.t. |
7 | Shinpei Fukuda | Aisan | s.t. |
8 | Brenton Jones | Drapac | s.t. |
9 | Paolo Simion | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
10 | Andrea Palini | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
11 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Dimension Data | s.t. |
12 | Joon-Yong Seo | KSPO | s.t. |
13 | Karol Domagalski | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
14 | Mirco Maestri | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
15 | Harrif Salleh | Terengganu | s.t. |
16 | Luca Chirico | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
17 | Ryan MacAnally | Pegasus | s.t. |
18 | Siu Wai Ko | HKSI | s.t. |
19 | Graeme Brown | Drapac | s.t. |
20 | Irwandie Lakasek | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
21 | Anuar Manan | Terengganu | s.t. |
22 | Miguel Ángel López | Astana | s.t. |
23 | Jingbiao Zhao | Hengxiang | s.t. |
24 | Daniel Jaramillo | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
25 | Hyeon-Seok Kim | KSPO | s.t. |
26 | Janez Brajkovic | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
27 | Tanner Putt | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
28 | Antonio Piedra | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
29 | Julen Amezqueta | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
30 | Amirul Marzuki | Terengganu | s.t. |
31 | Carlos Manarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
32 | Lachlan Norris | Drapac | s.t. |
33 | Marcelo Felipe | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
34 | Ivan Santaromita | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
35 | Jesper Hansen | Tinkoff | s.t. |
36 | Zawawi Azman | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
37 | Jaco Venter | Dimension Data | s.t. |
38 | Adrien Niyonshuti | Dimension Data | s.t. |
39 | Arin Iswanna | Pegasus | s.t. |
40 | Evgueni Petrov | Tinkoff | s.t. |
41 | Sofian Nabil Bakri | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
42 | Patria Rastra | Pegasus | s.t. |
43 | Roland Thalmann | Roth | s.t. |
44 | Erik Baška | Tinkoff | s.t. |
45 | Lutfi Fauzan Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
46 | Jamalidin Novardianto | Pegasus | s.t. |
47 | Afiq Huznie Othman | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
48 | Masakazu Ito | Aisan | s.t. |
49 | Zhang Zheng | Hengxiang | s.t. |
50 | Songezo Jim | Dimension Data | s.t. |
51 | Francisco Mancebo | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
52 | Ty Magner | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
53 | James Oram | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
54 | Gavin Mannion | Drapac | s.t. |
55 | Meng Yan | Hengxiang | s.t. |
56 | Jonathon Clarke | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
57 | Tomás Gil | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
58 | Wenlong Zhang | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
59 | Richard Handley | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
60 | Meiyin Wang | Hengxiang | s.t. |
61 | George Harper | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
62 | Valentin Baillifard | Roth | s.t. |
63 | Shahrul Mat Amin | Terengganu | s.t. |
64 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Aisan | s.t. |
65 | Alberto Nardin | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
66 | John Ebsen | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
67 | Guangtong Ma | Hengxiang | s.t. |
68 | Johann Van Zyl | Dimension Data | s.t. |
69 | Sung-Baek Park | KSPO | s.t. |
70 | Teten Rohendi | Pegasus | s.t. |
71 | Laurens De Vreese | Astana | s.t. |
72 | Ahmad Mustafa Kamal | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
73 | Amir Rusli | Malaysia | s.t. |
74 | Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka | Aisan | s.t. |
75 | Maher Hasnaoui | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
76 | Luca Pacioni | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
77 | Giulio Ciccone | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
78 | Samuele Conti | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
79 | Simone Sterbini | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
80 | Francisco Chamorro | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
81 | Adiq Othman | Terengganu | s.t. |
82 | Tom Scully | Drapac | s.t. |
83 | Azri bin Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
84 | Jianpeng Liu | Hengxiang | s.t. |
85 | Choon Huat Goh | Terengganu | s.t. |
86 | Andrea Dal Col | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
87 | Ho San Chiu | HKSI | s.t. |
88 | Burr Ho | HKSI | s.t. |
89 | Agung Sahbana | Pegasus | s.t. |
90 | Nur Aiman Zariff | Malaysia | s.t. |
91 | Edgar Nohales | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
92 | Jonipher Ravina | 7-Eleven | +16sec |
93 | Dylan Page | Roth | s.t. |
94 | Azman Zulkifli | Malaysia | +18'' |
95 | Ka Hoo Fung | HKSI | s.t. |
96 | Mark John Lexer Guevarra | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
97 | Xiaolong Sun | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
98 | Jesse Ewart | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
99 | Lijun Bai | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
100 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast-Venezuela | +18'' |
101 | Kang-Eun Joo | KSPO | +22'' |
102 | Takeaki Ayabe | Aisan | s.t. |
103 | Hiu Fung Choy | HKSI | s.t. |
104 | Otavio Bulgarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
105 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | +23'' |
106 | Kun-Soo Kim | KSPO | s.t. |
107 | João Gaspar | Funvic Soul Cycles | +26'' |
108 | Fuwen Xue | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
109 | Matthew Goss | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
110 | Wan Yau Lau | HKSI | s.t. |
111 | Nicolas Dougall | Dimension Data | +31'' |
112 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | s.t. |
113 | Mohammed Nazri Muhamad | NSC - Mycron | +35'' |
114 | Hyo-Suk Gong | KSPO | s.t. |
115 | Wenhui Bi | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
116 | Juraj Sagan | Tinkoff | +43'' |
117 | Michael Gogl | Tinkoff | +47'' |
118 | Tristan Marguet | Roth | s.t. |
119 | Sea Keong Loh | Malaysia | +1' 00'' |
120 | Jens Mouris | Drapac | +1' 19'' |
121 | Colin Stüssi | Roth | +1' 28'' |
122 | Marco Bandiera | Androni Giocattoli | +3' 06'' |
123 | Lukas Jaun | Roth | +3' 30'' |
124 | Murad Tarek Obaid | Skydive Dubai | +5' 33'' |
125 | Pablo Urtasun | Funvic Soul Cycles | +9' 22'' |
126 | Nicola Ruffoni | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
127 | Dias Omirzakov | Astana | s.t. |
128 | Yake Hou | Giant-Champion System | DNF |
GC after Stage 3:
430.90 kilometers (267.96 miles) raced so far at an average speed of 40.24 km/hr (25.02 mph)
1 | Andrea Guardini | Astana | 10hr 42min 14sec |
2 | Andrea Palini | Skydive Dubai | +2sec |
3 | John Murphy | UnitedHealthcare | +6'' |
4 | James Oram | One Pro Cycling | +10'' |
5 | Meiyin Wang | Hengxiang | s.t. |
6 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Dimension Data | +12'' |
7 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
8 | Michal Kolár | Tinkoff | +16'' |
9 | Paolo Simion | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
10 | Karol Domagalski | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
11 | Graeme Brown | Drapac | s.t. |
12 | Marcelo Felipe | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
13 | Joon-Yong Seo | KSPO | s.t. |
14 | George Harper | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
15 | Luca Pacioni | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
16 | Adiq Othman | Terengganu | +20'' |
17 | Daniel Jaramillo | UnitedHealthcare | +22'' |
18 | Jesper Hansen | Tinkoff | s.t. |
19 | Miguel Ángel López | Astana | s.t. |
20 | Janez Brajkovic | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
21 | Lachlan Norris | Drapac | s.t. |
22 | Jaco Venter | Dimension Data | s.t. |
23 | Lutfi Fauzan Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
24 | Francisco Mancebo | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
25 | Ivan Santaromita | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
26 | Masakazu Ito | Aisan | s.t. |
27 | Antonio Piedra | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
28 | Richard Handley | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
29 | Jonathon Clarke | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
30 | Johann Van Zyl | Dimension Data | s.t. |
31 | Choon Huat Goh | Terengganu | +23'' |
32 | Mirco Maestri | Bardiani-CSF | +27'' |
33 | Amirul Marzuki | Terengganu | s.t. |
34 | Jingbiao Zhao | Hengxiang | s.t. |
35 | Luca Chirico | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
36 | Carlos Manarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
37 | Adrien Niyonshuti | Dimension Data | s.t. |
38 | Gavin Mannion | Drapac | s.t. |
39 | Erik Baška | Tinkoff | s.t. |
40 | Valentin Baillifard | Roth | s.t. |
41 | Roland Thalmann | Roth | s.t. |
42 | Songezo Jim | Dimension Data | s.t. |
43 | Alberto Nardin | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
44 | Julen Amezqueta | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
45 | Evgueni Petrov | Tinkoff | s.t. |
46 | Zawawi Azman | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
47 | Laurens De Vreese | Astana | s.t. |
48 | Guangtong Ma | Hengxiang | s.t. |
49 | Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka | Aisan | s.t. |
50 | Tomás Gil | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
51 | Wenlong Zhang | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
52 | John Ebsen | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
53 | Samuele Conti | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
54 | Simone Sterbini | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
55 | Burr Ho | HKSI | s.t. |
56 | Edgar Nohales | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
57 | Ho San Chiu | HKSI | s.t. |
58 | Tom Scully | Drapac | s.t. |
59 | Nur Aiman Zariff | Malaysia | s.t. |
60 | Sofian Nabil Bakri | NSC - Mycron | +32'' |
61 | Dylan Page | Roth | s.t. |
62 | Mark John Lexer Guevarra | 7-Eleven | +45'' |
63 | Lijun Bai | Giant-Champion System | +45'' |
64 | Tanner Putt | UnitedHealthcare | +1' 35'' |
65 | Nicolas Dougall | Dimension Data | +1' 49'' |
66 | Colin Stüssi | Roth | +1' 55'' |
67 | Ty Magner | UnitedHealthcare | +2' 23'' |
68 | Brenton Jones | Drapac | s.t. |
69 | Michael Gogl | Tinkoff | +2' 42'' |
70 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast-Venezuela | +2' 57'' |
71 | João Gaspar | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
72 | Juraj Sagan | Tinkoff | +2' 59'' |
73 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Aisan | +3' 45'' |
74 | Hyeon-Seok Kim | KSPO | +4' 09'' |
75 | Azri bin Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
76 | Sea Keong Loh | Malaysia | +4' 12'' |
77 | Azman Zulkifli | Malaysia | +4' 27'' |
78 | Kang-Eun Joo | KSPO | +4' 31'' |
79 | Francesco Chicchi | Androni Giocattoli | +5' 13'' |
80 | Shinpei Fukuda | Aisan | +5' 19'' |
81 | Harrif Salleh | Terengganu | s.t. |
82 | Siu Wai Ko | HKSI | s.t. |
83 | Patria Rastra | Pegasus | s.t. |
84 | Ryan MacAnally | Pegasus | s.t. |
85 | Irwandie Lakasek | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
86 | Sung-Baek Park | KSPO | s.t. |
87 | Teten Rohendi | Pegasus | s.t. |
88 | Meng Yan | Hengxiang | s.t. |
89 | Giulio Ciccone | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
90 | Anuar Manan | Terengganu | s.t. |
91 | Amir Rusli | Malaysia | s.t. |
92 | Shahrul Mat Amin | Terengganu | s.t. |
93 | Jianpeng Liu | Hengxiang | s.t. |
94 | Xiaolong Sun | Giant-Champion System | +5' 37'' |
95 | Ka Hoo Fung | HKSI | s.t. |
96 | Jesse Ewart | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
97 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | +5' 42'' |
98 | Matthew Goss | One Pro Cycling | +5' 45'' |
99 | Wan Yau Lau | HKSI | +5' 45'' |
100 | Mohammed Nazri Muhamad | NSC - Mycron | +5' 54'' |
101 | Zhang Zheng | Hengxiang | +8' 31'' |
102 | Andrea Dal Col | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
103 | Ahmad Mustafa Kamal | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
104 | Agung Sahbana | Pegasus | s.t. |
105 | Jonipher Ravina | 7-Eleven | +8' 43'' |
106 | Otavio Bulgarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | +8' 53'' |
107 | Kun-Soo Kim | KSPO | +8' 54'' |
108 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | +9' 22'' |
109 | Nicola Ruffoni | Bardiani-CSF | +9' 38'' |
110 | Takeaki Ayabe | Aisan | +10' 01'' |
111 | Shiki Kuroeda | Aisan | +10' 12'' |
112 | Jens Mouris | Drapac | +11' 10'' |
113 | Afiq Huznie Othman | NSC - Mycron | +11' 24'' |
114 | Marco Bandiera | Androni Giocattoli | +11' 37'' |
115 | Lukas Jaun | Roth | +12' 01'' |
116 | Maher Hasnaoui | Skydive Dubai | +13' 05'' |
117 | Francisco Chamorro | Funvic Soul Cycles | +13' 07'' |
118 | Arin Iswanna | Pegasus | s.t. |
119 | Fuwen Xue | Giant-Champion System | +13' 34'' |
120 | Jamalidin Novardianto | Pegasus | +14' 58'' |
121 | Tristan Marguet | Roth | +15' 03'' |
122 | Wenhui Bi | Giant-Champion System | +15' 09'' |
123 | Hyo-Suk Gong | KSPO | +15' 11'' |
124 | Dias Omirzakov | Astana | +17' 53'' |
125 | Murad Tarek Obaid | Skydive Dubai | +20' 07'' |
126 | Pablo Urtasun | Funvic Soul Cycles | +24' 56'' |
127 | Hiu Fung Choy | HKSI | +29' 41'' |
Thursday, February 25: Stage 2, Sungai Petani - Georgetown, 158.1 km (98.31 miles)
Andrea Palini outsprints Andrea Guardini to win Langkawi stage 2
The Race: The organizer provided this stage summary.
GEORGETOWN, PENANG - Andrea Palini of Skydive Dubai outsprinted Astana’s Andrea Guardini on the finishing line in Georgetown on the occasion of an unprecedented stage finishing in Penang via the 24km long second bridge and the 5km long Teluk Bahang hill.
China’s Wang Meiyin missed out on taking the yellow jersey from Guardini after another breakaway that saw him accumulating points for the King of the Mountains and the points classification he now leads.
After 22km of racing, the Hengxiang versatile rider found the way to escape along with Loh Sea Keong (Malaysia national team), Sofian Nabil (NSC), Gong Hyo Suk (KSPO) and Jamilidin Navardianto (Pegasus). They got a maximum advantage of 4.15 at km 50. As Wang won all three intermediate sprints, he collected nine seconds of time bonus, which put him in a virtual position of race leader with the perspective of taking the yellow jersey, shall Guardini not be the stage winner.
Astana pulled the bunch but didn’t catch the remaining three breakaway riders, Wang, Loh and Nabil, before the summit of Teluk Bahang with 30km to go. It was eventually all together 11km before the end of the race. All elements that make a good bike race were combined in one day as the wind played a key role in the finale after the climbs and the Penang bridge in a very spectacular environment.
“I didn’t expect to win”, Palini explained in a post-race press conference. “I was hoping for scoring points but I didn’t think I could beat Guardini. However, I was fresher than him after the last climb. That made the difference. I’m very happy. To win here is very important. It already makes my Tour de Langkawi a successful one.”
Guardini caught the occasion to underline how difficult it is to win a race, even for a sprinter of his caliber. “I said this morning again that it’s never simple to win”, he commented. “Palini showed today that he’s a more complete rider than me. He passed the hill better than me. I rode flat out to stay with the main peloton and it took out of me the energy I needed for winning the bunch sprint.”
It was a tight finish though. Bardiani-CSF’s Nicola Ruffoni crashed behind the leading trio of sprinters, South Africa’s Reinardt Janse van Rensburg being third on the line. The fast finale prevented Wang from getting the same time as Palini, so he missed out on the yellow jersey. “But my main goal is the King of Mountains jersey”, the Chinese rider explained. “That’s why I rode away again.”
Malaysia’s Loh Sea Keong was awarded the price of most combative rider as he also took part in the breakaway for the second straight day. “My career was in a dilemma after I finished the Tour de Korea in June”, the Kelantanese explained. “I was struggling with a lot of things in my life. I decided to take a break from cycling but in November, I went to Thailand to train for making a come-back. Here I am, happy to race offensively for Malaysia again. Today it was the most valuable stage I’ve experienced in ten years of taking part in Le Tour de Langkawi. Riding in to Penang was incredibly spectacular, so was the run in to the finish when we came down to the coast from the last hill. It was a challenging route. I was thrilled to be part of the breakaway until very close to the finish.”
Complete Results:
158.1 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.19 km/hr (24.99 mph)
1 | Andrea Palini | Skydive Dubai | 3hr 56min 2sec |
2 | Andrea Guardini | Astana | s.t. |
3 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Dimension Data | s.t. |
4 | Michal Kolár | Tinkoff | s.t. |
5 | John Murphy | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
6 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
7 | Graeme Brown | Drapac | s.t. |
8 | Karol Domagalski | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
9 | Luca Pacioni | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
10 | George Harper | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
11 | Joon-Yong Seo | KSPO | s.t. |
12 | Paolo Simion | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
13 | Marcelo Felipe | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
14 | James Oram | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
15 | Richard Handley | One Pro Cycling | +6sec |
16 | Jesper Hansen | Tinkoff | s.t. |
17 | Daniel Jaramillo | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
18 | Francisco Mancebo | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
19 | Miguel Ángel López | Astana | s.t. |
20 | Janez Brajkovic | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
21 | Masakazu Ito | Aisan | s.t. |
22 | Johann Van Zyl | Dimension Data | s.t. |
23 | Jaco Venter | Dimension Data | s.t. |
24 | Antonio Piedra | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
25 | Lachlan Norris | Drapac | s.t. |
26 | Lutfi Fauzan Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
27 | Ivan Santaromita | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
28 | Jonathon Clarke | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
29 | Guangtong Ma | Hengxiang | +11'' |
30 | Adiq Othman | Terengganu | s.t. |
31 | Jingbiao Zhao | Hengxiang | s.t. |
32 | Roland Thalmann | Roth | s.t. |
33 | Gavin Mannion | Drapac | s.t. |
34 | Alberto Nardin | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
35 | Colin Stüssi | Roth | s.t. |
36 | Valentin Baillifard | Roth | s.t. |
37 | Amirul Marzuki | Terengganu | s.t. |
38 | Adrien Niyonshuti | Dimension Data | s.t. |
39 | Nur Aiman Zariff | Malaysia | s.t. |
40 | Zawawi Azman | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
41 | Evgueni Petrov | Tinkoff | s.t. |
42 | Tomás Gil | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
43 | Erik Baška | Tinkoff | s.t. |
44 | Luca Chirico | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
45 | Meiyin Wang | Hengxiang | s.t. |
46 | Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka | Aisan | s.t. |
47 | Mirco Maestri | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
48 | Simone Sterbini | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
49 | Julen Amezqueta | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
50 | John Ebsen | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
51 | Carlos Manarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
52 | Samuele Conti | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
53 | Songezo Jim | Dimension Data | s.t. |
54 | Burr Ho | HKSI | s.t. |
55 | Wenlong Zhang | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
56 | Edgar Nohales | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
57 | Ho San Chiu | HKSI | s.t. |
58 | Mark John Lexer Guevarra | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
59 | Lijun Bai | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
60 | Choon Huat Goh | Terengganu | s.t. |
61 | Tom Scully | Drapac | s.t. |
62 | Sofian Nabil Bakri | NSC - Mycron | +21'' |
63 | Ty Magner | UnitedHealthcare | +29'' |
64 | Laurens De Vreese | Astana | +11'' |
65 | Sea Keong Loh | Malaysia | +1' 02'' |
66 | Juraj Sagan | Tinkoff | s.t. |
67 | Nicolas Dougall | Dimension Data | s.t. |
68 | Tanner Putt | UnitedHealthcare | +1' 19'' |
69 | Michael Gogl | Tinkoff | +1' 39'' |
70 | Nicola Ruffoni | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
71 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast-Venezuela | +2' 23'' |
72 | Brenton Jones | Drapac | s.t. |
73 | João Gaspar | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
74 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Aisan | +3' 29'' |
75 | Kang-Eun Joo | KSPO | +3' 53'' |
76 | Hyeon-Seok Kim | KSPO | s.t. |
77 | Azri bin Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
78 | Azman Zulkifli | Malaysia | s.t. |
79 | Ka Hoo Fung | HKSI | +5' 03'' |
80 | Patria Rastra | Pegasus | s.t. |
81 | Xiaolong Sun | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
82 | Giulio Ciccone | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
83 | Ryan MacAnally | Pegasus | s.t. |
84 | Jesse Ewart | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
85 | Teten Rohendi | Pegasus | s.t. |
86 | Irwandie Lakasek | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
87 | Sung-Baek Park | KSPO | s.t. |
88 | Mohammed Nazri Muhamad | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
89 | Amir Rusli | Malaysia | s.t. |
90 | Shahrul Mat Amin | Terengganu | s.t. |
91 | Anuar Manan | Terengganu | s.t. |
92 | Siu Wai Ko | HKSI | s.t. |
93 | Matthew Goss | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
94 | Harrif Salleh | Terengganu | s.t. |
95 | Jianpeng Liu | Hengxiang | s.t. |
96 | Francesco Chicchi | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
97 | Meng Yan | Hengxiang | s.t. |
98 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
99 | Shinpei Fukuda | Aisan | s.t. |
100 | Wan Yau Lau | HKSI | s.t. |
101 | Jonipher Ravina | 7-Eleven | +8' 11'' |
102 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | +8' 15'' |
103 | Dias Omirzakov | Astana | s.t. |
104 | Jens Mouris | Drapac | s.t. |
105 | Kun-Soo Kim | KSPO | s.t. |
106 | Ahmad Mustafa Kamal | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
107 | Marco Bandiera | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
108 | Otavio Bulgarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
109 | Lukas Jaun | Roth | s.t. |
110 | Agung Sahbana | Pegasus | s.t. |
111 | Andrea Dal Col | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
112 | Shiki Kuroeda | Aisan | s.t. |
113 | Zhang Zheng | Hengxiang | s.t. |
114 | Hiu Fung Choy | HKSI | s.t. |
115 | Takeaki Ayabe | Aisan | s.t. |
116 | Afiq Huznie Othman | NSC - Mycron | +11' 08'' |
117 | Fuwen Xue | Giant-Champion System | +11' 32'' |
118 | Francisco Chamorro | Funvic Soul Cycles | +12' 51'' |
119 | Arin Iswanna | Pegasus | s.t. |
120 | Maher Hasnaoui | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
121 | Tristan Marguet | Roth | +14' 00'' |
122 | Wenhui Bi | Giant-Champion System | +14' 18'' |
123 | Murad Tarek Obaid | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
124 | Yake Hou | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
125 | Pablo Urtasun | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
126 | Hyo-Suk Gong | KSPO | +14' 21'' |
127 | Jamalidin Novardianto | Pegasus | +14' 45'' |
128 | Dylan Page | Roth | s.t. |
129 | Ruslan Tleubayev | Astana | DNS |
130 | Dominic Perez | 7-Eleven | DNS |
131 | Tiziano Dall'Antonia | Androni Giocattoli | DSQ |
132 | Mansoor Ali Shambih | Skydive Dubai | DSQ |
GC after Stage 2:
323.70 kilometers (201.29 miles) raced so far at an average apeed of 39.48 km/hr (24.55 mph)
1 | Andrea Guardini | Astana | 8hr 11min 43sec |
2 | Andrea Palini | Skydive Dubai | +2sec |
3 | Meiyin Wang | Hengxiang | +10'' |
4 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Dimension Data | +12'' |
5 | John Murphy | UnitedHealthcare | +16'' |
6 | Michal Kolár | Tinkoff | s.t. |
7 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
8 | Graeme Brown | Drapac | s.t. |
9 | Paolo Simion | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
10 | Karol Domagalski | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
11 | George Harper | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
12 | Marcelo Felipe | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
13 | Joon-Yong Seo | KSPO | s.t. |
14 | Luca Pacioni | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
15 | Nicola Ruffoni | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
16 | James Oram | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
17 | Dylan Page | Roth | s.t. |
18 | Adiq Othman | Terengganu | +20'' |
19 | Daniel Jaramillo | UnitedHealthcare | +22'' |
20 | Jesper Hansen | Tinkoff | s.t. |
21 | Lachlan Norris | Drapac | s.t. |
22 | Jaco Venter | Dimension Data | s.t. |
23 | Janez Brajkovic | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
24 | Miguel Ángel López | Astana | s.t. |
25 | Francisco Mancebo | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
26 | Lutfi Fauzan Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
27 | Masakazu Ito | Aisan | s.t. |
28 | Richard Handley | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
29 | Ivan Santaromita | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
30 | Antonio Piedra | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
31 | Johann Van Zyl | Dimension Data | s.t. |
32 | Jonathon Clarke | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
33 | Amirul Marzuki | Terengganu | +27'' |
34 | Mirco Maestri | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
35 | Colin Stüssi | Roth | s.t. |
36 | Gavin Mannion | Drapac | s.t. |
37 | Valentin Baillifard | Roth | s.t. |
38 | Jingbiao Zhao | Hengxiang | s.t. |
39 | Adrien Niyonshuti | Dimension Data | s.t. |
40 | Carlos Manarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
41 | Alberto Nardin | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
42 | Laurens De Vreese | Astana | s.t. |
43 | Erik Baška | Tinkoff | s.t. |
44 | Luca Chirico | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
45 | Songezo Jim | Dimension Data | s.t. |
46 | Roland Thalmann | Roth | s.t. |
47 | Guangtong Ma | Hengxiang | s.t. |
48 | Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka | Aisan | s.t. |
49 | Samuele Conti | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
50 | Evgueni Petrov | Tinkoff | s.t. |
51 | John Ebsen | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
52 | Zawawi Azman | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
53 | Simone Sterbini | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
54 | Julen Amezqueta | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
55 | Wenlong Zhang | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
56 | Tomás Gil | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
57 | Burr Ho | HKSI | s.t. |
58 | Edgar Nohales | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
59 | Ho San Chiu | HKSI | s.t. |
60 | Choon Huat Goh | Terengganu | s.t. |
61 | Lijun Bai | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
62 | Mark John Lexer Guevarra | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
63 | Tom Scully | Drapac | s.t. |
64 | Nur Aiman Zariff | Malaysia | s.t. |
65 | Sofian Nabil Bakri | NSC - Mycron | +32'' |
66 | Nicolas Dougall | Dimension Data | +1' 18'' |
67 | Tanner Putt | UnitedHealthcare | +1' 35'' |
68 | Michael Gogl | Tinkoff | +1' 55'' |
69 | Juraj Sagan | Tinkoff | +2' 16'' |
70 | Ty Magner | UnitedHealthcare | +2' 23'' |
71 | Brenton Jones | Drapac | +2' 33'' |
72 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast-Venezuela | +2' 39'' |
73 | João Gaspar | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
74 | Sea Keong Loh | Malaysia | +3' 12'' |
75 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Aisan | +3' 45'' |
76 | Hyeon-Seok Kim | KSPO | +4' 09'' |
77 | Kang-Eun Joo | KSPO | s.t. |
78 | Azri bin Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
79 | Azman Zulkifli | Malaysia | s.t. |
80 | Patria Rastra | Pegasus | +5' 19'' |
81 | Harrif Salleh | Terengganu | s.t. |
82 | Siu Wai Ko | HKSI | s.t. |
83 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
84 | Shinpei Fukuda | Aisan | s.t. |
85 | Sung-Baek Park | KSPO | s.t. |
86 | Matthew Goss | One Pro Cycling | s.t. |
87 | Xiaolong Sun | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
88 | Teten Rohendi | Pegasus | s.t. |
89 | Giulio Ciccone | Bardiani CSF | s.t. |
90 | Ryan MacAnally | Pegasus | s.t. |
91 | Irwandie Lakasek | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
92 | Francesco Chicchi | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
93 | Meng Yan | Hengxiang | s.t. |
94 | Ka Hoo Fung | HKSI | s.t. |
95 | Amir Rusli | Malaysia | s.t. |
96 | Jesse Ewart | 7-Eleven | s.t. |
97 | Mohammed Nazri Muhamad | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
98 | Jianpeng Liu | Hengxiang | s.t. |
99 | Shahrul Mat Amin | Terengganu | s.t. |
100 | Anuar Manan | Terengganu | s.t. |
101 | Wan Yau Lau | HKSI | s.t. |
102 | Shiki Kuroeda | Aisan | +7' 51'' |
103 | Jonipher Ravina | 7-Eleven | +8' 27'' |
104 | Zhang Zheng | Hengxiang | +8' 31'' |
105 | Andrea Dal Col | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
106 | Kun-Soo Kim | KSPO | s.t. |
107 | Otavio Bulgarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
108 | Agung Sahbana | Pegasus | s.t. |
109 | Dias Omirzakov | Astana | s.t. |
110 | Ahmad Mustafa Kamal | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
111 | Marco Bandiera | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
112 | Lukas Jaun | Roth | s.t. |
113 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | +8' 51'' |
114 | Takeaki Ayabe | Aisan | +9' 39'' |
115 | Jens Mouris | Drapac | +9' 51'' |
116 | Afiq Huznie Othman | NSC - Mycron | +11' 24'' |
117 | Maher Hasnaoui | Skydive Dubai | +13' 05'' |
118 | Francisco Chamorro | Funvic Soul Cycles | +13' 07'' |
119 | Arin Iswanna | Pegasus | s.t. |
120 | Fuwen Xue | Giant-Champion System | +13' 08'' |
121 | Tristan Marguet | Roth | +14' 16'' |
122 | Murad Tarek Obaid | Skydive Dubai | +14' 34'' |
123 | Yake Hou | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
124 | Wenhui Bi | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
125 | Hyo-Suk Gong | KSPO | +14' 36'' |
126 | Jamalidin Novardianto | Pegasus | +14' 58'' |
127 | Pablo Urtasun | Funvic Soul Cycles | +15' 34'' |
128 | Hiu Fung Choy | HKSI | +29' 19'' |
Tour de Langkawi stage 2 video: It's in italian, but the action is easy to understand
Wednesday, February 24: Stage 1, Kangar - Baling, 165.6 km (102.98 miles)
Andrea Guardini wins Langkawi stage 1
The Race:
Here's the stage story from the race organizer:
BALING - Italy’s Andrea Guardini of Astana fended off new opponents at Le Tour de Langkawi to claim his nineteenth stage victory in six straight participations to the Malaysian race as he won stage 1 in Baling in a much expected bunch gallop. As they discovered the event for the first time, Australia’s Brenton Jones from Drapac and Skydive Dubai’s Andrea Palini who also hails from Italy came second and third respectively.
Like in 2011 and 20115, Guardini will start stage 2 in the yellow jersey but with an advantage of only two seconds over China’s Wang Meiyin who was the other top contender of the day. The versatile rider from Hengxiang who is well known in Malaysia after he finished fifth overall in 2013, having won the Cameron Highlands stage and the King of the Mountains price that year, firstly bridged the gap to the initial three attackers Adiq Hussainie Othman (Terengganu), Loh Sea Keong (Malaysia national team) and Meher Hasnaoui (Skydive Dubai). Wang won the first two intermediate sprints at km 22 and 56 ahead of Othman who managed to claim the third one to secure the third place in the overall classification through the time bonuses. Wang also outsprinted his three breakaway companions at the mountains prices.
The maximum advantage of the leading quartet was 6.50 at km 50. Once the TV live coverage was on, the Malaysian audience enjoyed Loh’s fighting spirit as the Kelantanese from Kuala Krai forged on in a brilliant solo effort before he was the last rider to get caught by the peloton in the last ten kilometers of racing. The head wind in the final stretch was a key factor for Guardini to show that his sprinting abilities remain intact.
“It’s always hard to win, especially when being the hot favourite”, Guardini declared in the post-race press conference. “In stage 1, it’s also difficult to take control of the events. Everyone was waiting for my team to do it. Fortunately, Southeast collaborated with us to catch the breakaway. There were good riders at the front but a lot of head wind at the end. As a team, we’ve done a good job but we’ve also lost one rider [Ruslan Tleubayev] who broke a collarbone in a crash. It’s nice to have the jersey but it’ll be even more difficult to control the race with one rider less.”
The Astana sprinter dedicated his victory to a new born baby after he spoke to his wife on the phone prior to the start. “For the first time I became an uncle last night so this win is for Robin, my niece”, he said. “Le Tour de Langkawi isn’t a race like last year for me. I find some rivals who are new to me. I’ve already taken part in a lot of races [Dubai Tour, Tour of Qatar and Tour of Oman] before coming here but I hope to keep a good condition from now until the last stage.”
Wang expressed the same wish, even though it was a surprise to a few observers to see him on the attack so early in Le Tour de Langkawi rather than waiting for the expected to be decisive stage 4 to the Cameron Highlands. “I thank my team for having given me the opportunity to try and go for the sprints and the KOM points”, said the 27 year old from Qufu in the Shandong province. “I also thank the organizers for inviting us once again. Le Tour de Langkawi is a platform for Chinese cyclists on the international cycling scene.”
And here's the stage story from race winner Andrea Guardini's Astana team:
"When we come here, to Malaysia, people always expect for my sprint and work of my teammates. Every time it is difficult to control the race, but today we have done a very good job; we let a good breakaway go and successfully caught escapees" - explained Andrea Guardini after winning the first stage of the 2016 Tour de Langkawi.
Andrea Guardini won the first stage at Le Tour de Lanqkawi from mass sprint at the end of very hot and nervous day in Malaysia.
“We controlled the race from the very beginning of the stage. Dias Omirzakov and Arman Kamyshev did a great job today! We controlled the breakaway during the whole day. At the end of the race guys tried to help Andrea, but the road was very wide and chaotic motions in the bunch resulted in bad crash with 4 km to go” – comments sports director Dmitri Sedoun.
Ruslan Tleubayev was involved in the crash with 4 km to go and forced to abandon the race. An ambulance took him straight from the race to hospital for further examinations. With double fracture of the clavicle Ruslan will fly to Europe for emergency surgery.
"It will be hard to start tomorrow only with five riders. I hope Ruslan will quickly recover. I wish him to get well soon and want to thank all of my teammates for the work they have done for me today" - concluded Guardini.
This victory enabled Andrea to become a leader of the points classification and take the leader's yellow jersey.
Stage 2 from Sungai Petani to Georgetown, set to be 158km long, will mark the return of Le Tour de Langkawi on the island of Penang for the first time since 1999.
Complete Results:
165.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 38.82 km/hr
1 | Andrea Guardini | Astana | 4hr 15min 57sec |
2 | Brenton Jones | Drapac | s.t. |
3 | Andrea Palini | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
4 | John Murphy | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
5 | Dylan Page | Roth | s.t. |
6 | Michal Kolár | Tinkoff | s.t. |
7 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Dimension Data | s.t. |
8 | Shinpei Fukuda | Aisan | s.t. |
9 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
10 | Harrif Salleh | Terengganu | s.t. |
11 | Paolo Simion | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
12 | Nicola Ruffoni | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
13 | Hyeon-Seok Kim | KSPO | s.t. |
14 | Siu Wai Ko | HKSI | s.t. |
15 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
16 | Graeme Brown | Drapac | s.t. |
17 | Karol Domagalski | ONE Pro Cycling | s.t. |
18 | Mirco Maestri | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
19 | George Harper | ONE Pro Cycling | s.t. |
20 | Kang-Eun Joo | KSPO | s.t. |
21 | Patria Rastra | Pegasus | s.t. |
22 | Marcelo Felipe | 7 Eleven-SAVA RBP | s.t. |
23 | Daniel Jaramillo | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
24 | Amirul Marzuki | Terengganu | s.t. |
25 | Laurens De Vreese | Astana | s.t. |
26 | Jesper Hansen | Tinkoff | s.t. |
27 | Lachlan Norris | Drapac | s.t. |
28 | Matthew Goss | ONE Pro Cycling | s.t. |
29 | Sung-Baek Park | KSPO | s.t. |
30 | Jaco Venter | Dimension Data | s.t. |
31 | Jamalidin Novardianto | Pegasus | s.t. |
32 | Zhang Zheng | Hengxiang | s.t. |
33 | Colin Stüssi | Roth | s.t. |
34 | Carlos Manarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
35 | Lutfi Fauzan Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
36 | Janez Brajkovic | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
37 | Gavin Mannion | Drapac | s.t. |
38 | Murad Tarek Obaid | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
39 | Miguel Ángel López | Astana | s.t. |
40 | Valentin Baillifard | Roth | s.t. |
41 | Azri bin Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
42 | Francisco Mancebo | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
43 | Songezo Jim | Dimension Data | s.t. |
44 | Teten Rohendi | Pegasus | s.t. |
45 | Adrien Niyonshuti | Dimension Data | s.t. |
46 | Xiaolong Sun | Giant - Champion System | s.t. |
47 | Jingbiao Zhao | Hengxiang | s.t. |
48 | Erik Baška | Tinkoff | s.t. |
49 | Andrea Dal Col | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
50 | Giulio Ciccone | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
51 | Tanner Putt | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
52 | Luca Chirico | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
53 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Aisan | s.t. |
54 | Alberto Nardin | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
55 | Masakazu Ito | Aisan | s.t. |
56 | Meng Yan | Hengxiang | s.t. |
57 | Francesco Chicchi | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
58 | Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka | Aisan | s.t. |
59 | Sofian Nabil Bakri | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
60 | Joon-Yong Seo | KSPO | s.t. |
61 | Ivan Santaromita | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
62 | Samuele Conti | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
63 | Kun-Soo Kim | KSPO | s.t. |
64 | Ryan MacAnally | Pegasus | s.t. |
65 | Irwandie Lakasek | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
66 | Roland Thalmann | Roth | s.t. |
67 | Luca Pacioni | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
68 | Richard Handley | ONE Pro Cycling | s.t. |
69 | Francisco Chamorro | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
70 | Guangtong Ma | Hengxiang | s.t. |
71 | Wenlong Zhang | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
72 | John Ebsen | ONE Pro Cycling | s.t. |
73 | Michael Gogl | Tinkoff | s.t. |
74 | Antonio Piedra | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
75 | Evgueni Petrov | Tinkoff | s.t. |
76 | Jonipher Ravina | 7 Eleven-SAVA RBP | s.t. |
77 | Julen Amezqueta | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
78 | Simone Sterbini | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
79 | Azman Zulkifli | Malaysia | s.t. |
80 | James Oram | ONE Pro Cycling | s.t. |
81 | Amir Rusli | Malaysia | s.t. |
82 | Burr Ho | HKSI | s.t. |
83 | Edgar Nohales | 7 Eleven-SAVA RBP | s.t. |
84 | Zawawi Azman | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
85 | Tomás Gil | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
86 | Ka Hoo Fung | HKSI | s.t. |
87 | Ho San Chiu | HKSI | s.t. |
88 | Nicolas Dougall | Dimension Data | s.t. |
89 | Tiziano Dall'Antonia | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
90 | Jesse Ewart | 7 Eleven-SAVA RBP | s.t. |
91 | Choon Huat Goh | Terengganu | s.t. |
92 | Meiyin Wang | Hengxiang | s.t. |
93 | Otavio Bulgarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
94 | Hyo-Suk Gong | KSPO | s.t. |
95 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
96 | Agung Sahbana | Pegasus | s.t. |
97 | Lijun Bai | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
98 | Jianpeng Liu | Hengxiang | s.t. |
99 | Johann Van Zyl | Dimension Data | s.t. |
100 | Mark John Lexer Guevarra | 7 Eleven-SAVA RBP | s.t. |
101 | Mohammed Nazri Muhamad | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
102 | João Gaspar | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
103 | Ahmad Mustafa Kamal | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
104 | Jonathon Clarke | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
105 | Tom Scully | Drapac | s.t. |
106 | Dias Omirzakov | Astana | s.t. |
107 | Adiq Othman | Terengganu | s.t. |
108 | Yake Hou | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
109 | Maher Hasnaoui | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
110 | Juraj Sagan | Tinkoff | +58sec |
111 | Tristan Marguet | Roth | s.t. |
112 | Pablo Urtasun | Funvic Soul Cycles | +1' 00'' |
113 | Takeaki Ayabe | Aisan | +1' 08'' |
114 | Jens Mouris | Drapac | +1' 20'' |
115 | Fuwen Xue | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
116 | Ty Magner | UnitedHealthcare | +1' 38'' |
117 | Shiki Kuroeda | Aisan | s.t. |
118 | Shahrul Mat Amin | Terengganu | s.t. |
119 | Afiq Huznie Othman | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
120 | Sea Keong Loh | Malaysia | +1' 55'' |
121 | Marco Bandiera | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
122 | Wenhui Bi | Giant-Champion System | s.t. |
123 | Anuar Manan | Terengganu | s.t. |
124 | Lukas Jaun | Roth | s.t. |
125 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | s.t. |
126 | Mansoor Ali Shambih | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
127 | Dominic Perez | 7 Eleven-SAVA RBP | s.t. |
128 | Nur Aiman Zariff | Malaysia | s.t. |
129 | Wan Yau Lau | HKSI | s.t. |
130 | Arin Iswanna | Pegasus | s.t. |
131 | Hiu Fung Choy | HKSI | s.t. |
132 | Ruslan Tleubayev | Astana | s.t. |
GC after Stage 1:
1 | Andrea Guardini | Astana | 4hr 15min 47sec |
2 | Meiyin Wang | Hengxiang | +2sec |
3 | Adiq Othman | Terengganu | +3'' |
4 | Brenton Jones | Drapac | +4'' |
5 | Andrea Palini | Skydive Dubai | +6'' |
6 | Maher Hasnaoui | Skydive Dubai | +8'' |
7 | John Murphy | UnitedHealthcare | +10'' |
8 | Dylan Page | Roth | s.t. |
9 | Michal Kolár | Tinkoff | s.t. |
10 | Reinardt Janse Van Rensburg | Dimension Data | s.t. |
11 | Shinpei Fukuda | Aisan | s.t. |
12 | Marco Benfatto | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
13 | Harrif Salleh | Terengganu | s.t. |
14 | Paolo Simion | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
15 | Nicola Ruffoni | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
16 | Hyeon-Seok Kim | KSPO | s.t. |
17 | Siu Wai Ko | HKSI | s.t. |
18 | Jakub Mareczko | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
19 | Graeme Brown | Drapac | s.t. |
20 | Karol Domagalski | ONE Pro Cycling | s.t. |
21 | Mirco Maestri | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
22 | George Harper | ONE Pro Cycling | s.t. |
23 | Kang-Eun Joo | KSPO | s.t. |
24 | Patria Rastra | Pegasus | s.t. |
25 | Marcelo Felipe | 7 Eleven-SAVA RBP | s.t. |
26 | Daniel Jaramillo | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
27 | Amirul Marzuki | Terengganu | s.t. |
28 | Laurens De Vreese | Astana | s.t. |
29 | Jesper Hansen | Tinkoff | s.t. |
30 | Lachlan Norris | Drapac | s.t. |
31 | Matthew Goss | ONE Pro Cycling | s.t. |
32 | Sung-Baek Park | KSPO | s.t. |
33 | Jaco Venter | Dimension Data | s.t. |
34 | Jamalidin Novardianto | Pegasus | s.t. |
35 | Zhang Zheng | Hengxiang | s.t. |
36 | Colin Stüssi | Roth | s.t. |
37 | Carlos Manarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
38 | Lutfi Fauzan Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
39 | Janez Brajkovic | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
40 | Gavin Mannion | Drapac | s.t. |
41 | Murad Tarek Obaid | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
42 | Miguel Ángel López | Astana | s.t. |
43 | Valentin Baillifard | Roth | s.t. |
44 | Azri bin Ahmad | Malaysia | s.t. |
45 | Francisco Mancebo | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
46 | Songezo Jim | Dimension Data | s.t. |
47 | Teten Rohendi | Pegasus | s.t. |
48 | Adrien Niyonshuti | Dimension Data | s.t. |
49 | Xiaolong Sun | Giant - Champion System | s.t. |
50 | Jingbiao Zhao | Hengxiang | s.t. |
51 | Erik Baška | Tinkoff | s.t. |
52 | Andrea Dal Col | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
53 | Giulio Ciccone | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
54 | Tanner Putt | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
55 | Luca Chirico | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
56 | Tomohiro Hayakawa | Aisan | s.t. |
57 | Alberto Nardin | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
58 | Masakazu Ito | Aisan | s.t. |
59 | Meng Yan | Hengxiang | s.t. |
60 | Francesco Chicchi | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
61 | Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka | Aisan | s.t. |
62 | Sofian Nabil Bakri | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
63 | Joon-Yong Seo | KSPO | s.t. |
64 | Ivan Santaromita | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
65 | Samuele Conti | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
66 | Kun-Soo Kim | KSPO | s.t. |
67 | Ryan MacAnally | Pegasus | s.t. |
68 | Irwandie Lakasek | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
69 | Roland Thalmann | Roth | s.t. |
70 | Luca Pacioni | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
71 | Richard Handley | ONE Pro Cycling | s.t. |
72 | Francisco Chamorro | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
73 | Guangtong Ma | Hengxiang | s.t. |
74 | Wenlong Zhang | Giant - Champion System | s.t. |
75 | John Ebsen | ONE Pro Cycling | s.t. |
76 | Michael Gogl | Tinkoff | s.t. |
77 | Antonio Piedra | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
78 | Evgueni Petrov | Tinkoff | s.t. |
79 | Jonipher Ravina | 7 Eleven-SAVA RBP | s.t. |
80 | Julen Amezqueta | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
81 | Simone Sterbini | Bardiani-CSF | s.t. |
82 | Azman Zulkifli | Malaysia | s.t. |
83 | James Oram | ONE Pro Cycling | s.t. |
84 | Amir Rusli | Malaysia | s.t. |
85 | Burr Ho | HKSI | s.t. |
86 | Edgar Nohales | 7 Eleven-SAVA RBP | s.t. |
87 | Zawawi Azman | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
88 | Tomás Gil | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
89 | Ka Hoo Fung | HKSI | s.t. |
90 | Ho San Chiu | HKSI | s.t. |
91 | Nicolas Dougall | Dimension Data | s.t. |
92 | Tiziano Dall'Antonia | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
93 | Jesse Ewart | 7 Eleven-SAVA RBP | s.t. |
94 | Choon Huat Goh | Terengganu | s.t. |
95 | Otavio Bulgarelli | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
96 | Hyo-Suk Gong | KSPO | s.t. |
97 | Giuseppe Fonzi | Southeast-Venezuela | s.t. |
98 | Agung Sahbana | Pegasus | s.t. |
99 | Lijun Bai | Giant - Champion System | s.t. |
100 | Jianpeng Liu | Hengxiang | s.t. |
101 | Johann Van Zyl | Dimension Data | s.t. |
102 | Mark John Lexer Guevarra | 7 Eleven-SAVA RBP | s.t. |
103 | Mohammed Nazri Muhamad | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
104 | João Gaspar | Funvic Soul Cycles | s.t. |
105 | Ahmad Mustafa Kamal | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
106 | Jonathon Clarke | UnitedHealthcare | s.t. |
107 | Tom Scully | Drapac | s.t. |
108 | Dias Omirzakov | Astana | s.t. |
109 | Yake Hou | Giant - Champion System | s.t. |
110 | Tristan Marguet | Roth | s.t. |
111 | Shiki Kuroeda | Aisan | s.t. |
112 | Shahrul Mat Amin | Terengganu | s.t. |
113 | Afiq Huznie Othman | NSC - Mycron | s.t. |
114 | Marco Bandiera | Androni Giocattoli | s.t. |
115 | Wenhui Bi | Giant - Champion System | s.t. |
116 | Anuar Manan | Terengganu | s.t. |
117 | Lukas Jaun | Roth | s.t. |
118 | Arman Kamyshev | Astana | s.t. |
119 | Mansoor Ali Shambih | Skydive Dubai | s.t. |
120 | Dominic Perez | 7 Eleven-SAVA RBP | s.t. |
121 | Nur Aiman Zariff | Malaysia | s.t. |
122 | Wan Yau Lau | HKSI | s.t. |
123 | Arin Iswanna | Pegasus | s.t. |
124 | Hiu Fung Choy | HKSI | s.t. |
125 | Ruslan Tleubayev | Astana | s.t. |
126 | Juraj Sagan | Tinkoff | +1' 08'' |
127 | Pablo Urtasun | Funvic Soul Cycles | +1' 10'' |
128 | Takeaki Ayabe | Aisan | +1' 18'' |
129 | Jens Mouris | Drapac | +1' 30'' |
130 | Fuwen Xue | Giant - Champion System | s.t. |
131 | Ty Magner | UnitedHealthcare | +1' 48'' |
132 | Sea Keong Loh | Malaysia | +2' 04'' |