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2018 Tour of Hainan (HC), China

13th edition: October 23 - 31, 2018

Wednesday, October 31: 9th & Final Stage, Changjiang - Danzhou, 181.9 km

Simon Pellaud

Simon Pellaud takes the Tour of Hainan's final stage.

The race: Here's the organizer's stage summary.

Masnada secures Tour of Hainan victory, Pellaud takes stage

Simon Pellaud shot free in the last kilometre and left his escape companions to win the Tour of Hainan's final stage in Danzhou. Immediately behind the Swiss cyclist, the group came with Fausto Masnada (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec) keeping his yellow jersey and winning the race overall.

Pellaud celebrated with this Swiss team-mates, including Gino Mäder – stage six winner and second place overall. He capped off the final day – 181.9 km from Changjiang – in style.

"We never had over 1-30 minutes, I was never really sure," Pellaud said. "But I knew that the Androni didn't want to bring it back because my team-mate Gino Mäder was in the group, so they didn't want to risk him getting away for bonus seconds."

The Swiss Cycling team rider rode free all day in an escape of seven. Yesterday he worked for team-mate Mäder, who placed second on the summit finish stage behind Italian Masnada.

Masnada won his first professional victory 24 hours ago and today under Hainan's warm sun, he won the race overall. "We really wanted to confirm this after the great show yesterday," Masnada said. My team worked well to control it. We just thought about the overall, we didn't want to bother with the sprint with Belletti, just thinking about the overall and taking home the yellow jersey.

"I hadn't yet won in my career, but now to close my second year as a pro with a win, that's great."

Androni won four stages and took home the race overall.

Today, the Italian team controlled the attacks and finally let a group of seven gain some ground, but not much. It always kept them around one minute and a little more at times.

The seven: Lorenzo Rota (Bardiani CSF), Jason Lea (Bennelong Swisswelness), Harrison Sweeny (Mitchelton-BikeExchange), Peter Schulting (Monkey Town), Edwin Parra (Ningxia Livall), Alan Marangoni (Nippo-Vini Fantini) and Pellaud.

Italian Marangoni, 34, competed in his final stage race of his career and the final serious day of racing with only a small Japanese race left.

"The escape, just being there, was like a win for me," Marangoni said. "I wanted to close the last true race of my career with something special. To be in the escape and to see it arrive to the line, that was the best possible. And I get the combativity award. That's not a bad way to end."

At three kilometres to race, the group still had 35 seconds. It appeared they could stay clear. "When Pellaud went, I could not follow," Marangoni said. "His attack was so strong."

"I played it out smartly," Pellaud explained. "I used to always do all the work, but now I understand cycling now. I saved my legs as much as possible, and then in the last three kilometres, I went full.

"I came to Hainan seven years ago, it was my first professional race. This year, I had good shape. I worked in the escapes, I lead out Dylan Page and worked for Gino Mäder. I did a little bit of everything.

Lyu Xianjing (Hengxiang) secured his place in the race's 13-year history. He became the first Chinese rider to win the Asian classification and the mountains classification.

Dutchman Raymond Kreder (Team Ukyo) took home the green jersey for the points classification.

Complete results:

181.9 kilometers raced at an average speed of 43.502 km/hr

1	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	4hr 10min 53sec
2	SCHULTING Peter	Monkey Town	@ 5sec
3	ROTA Lorenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
4	MARANGONI Alan	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
5	PARRA Edwin Arnulfo	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
6	SWEENY Harry	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
7	MARECZKO Jakub	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	0:10
8	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
9	CIMA Imerio	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
10	PACIONI Luca	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
11	LOOIJ André	Monkey Town	s.t.
12	KREDER Raymond	Team UKYO	s.t.
13	WARD Tristan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
14	PAGE Dylan	Team Switzerland	s.t.
15	THÖMEL Tino	Bike Aid	s.t.
16	EINHORN Itamar	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
17	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
18	DE JONGE Maarten	Monkey Town	s.t.
19	BOIVIN Guillaume	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
20	HENNESSY Jacob	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
21	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts	RTS Racing	s.t.
22	VELASCO Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
23	BELLETTI Manuel	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
24	STEIMLE Jannik	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
25	OKAMOTO Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
26	MASNADA Fausto	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
27	IRVINE Declan	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
28	BOUGLAS Georgios	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
29	MAZUKI Nur Amirul	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
30	THALMANN Roland	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
31	MAESTRI Mirco	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
32	HUCKER Robbie	Team UKYO	s.t.
33	MÄDER Gino	Team Switzerland	s.t.
34	FEDELI Alessandro	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
35	EL FARES Julien	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
36	SALEH Mohd Zamri	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
37	BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-Bayar	RTS Racing	s.t.
38	STALLAERT Joeri	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
39	LYU Xianjing	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
40	SCHELLING Patrick	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
41	ORRICO Davide	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
42	VOSEKALNS Andris	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
43	GUERIN Alexis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
44	OVECHKIN Artem	Terengganu Cycling	0:15
45	BENFATTO Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
46	ARAQUE Rodrigo	Team UKYO	s.t.
47	FRAPPORTI Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
48	YOSHIDA Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
49	CARISEY Clément	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
50	GOLDSTEIN Roy	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
51	CALABRIA Fabio	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
52	CHEN Mingrun	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
53	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
54	GOH Choon Huat	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
55	VAN ENGELEN Adne	Bike Aid	s.t.
56	BANZER Gordian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
57	PRADES Benjamín	Team UKYO	s.t.
58	CHAVES Brayan	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
59	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
60	ITO Masakazu	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
61	SLIK Ivar	Monkey Town	s.t.
62	WILLIAMS Tyler	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
63	BADILATTI Matteo	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
64	LI Zisen	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
65	HENTTALA Joonas	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
66	HENDRICKS Clint	Bike Aid	s.t.
67	ZHENG Zhang	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
68	QIAO Feng	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
69	SCHNAPKA Matthias	Bike Aid	s.t.
70	BRAND Sam	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
71	POLIVODA Oleksandr	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
72	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
73	LIU Jianpeng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
74	SANTORO Antonio	Monkey Town	s.t.
75	BISSEGGER Stefan	Team Switzerland	s.t.
76	SCHNEITER Joab	Team Switzerland	0:24
77	GU Bingcheng	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
78	ORTEGA Mauricio	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	0:27
79	MOSCA Jacopo	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
80	HIRAI Eiichi	Team UKYO	0:30
81	VAN RHEE Joey	Monkey Town	0:34
82	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	0:39
83	CLANCY Stephen	Novo Nordisk	0:41
84	ZHANG Chunlong	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	0:43
85	SMUKULIS Gatis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
86	SHI Hang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
87	FRAPPORTI Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
88	LIU Jiankun	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
89	MONSALVE Yonathan	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
90	UCHIMA Kohei	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
91	GUTIERREZ Pedro	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
92	MEILER Lukas	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
93	NIU Yikui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
94	WANG Jiancai	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
95	GIACOPPO Anthony	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
96	GUO Liang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
97	YAN Meng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
98	YOKOTSUKA Kohei	Team UKYO	s.t.
99	LI Jin Song	Giant Cycling Team	0:57
100	WACKERMANN Luca	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
101	TURRIN Alex	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	0:59
102	MEYER Robin	Delko-Marseille Provence	1:07
103	JIANG Zhi Hui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	1:14
104	BATMUNKH Maral-Erdene	Terengganu Cycling	1:15
105	WANG Bo	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
106	KOSHEVOY Ilia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	1:21
107	KLEIMAN Wim	Monkey Town	s.t.
108	TOOVEY Ayden	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
109	YOSHIOKA Naoya	Team UKYO	1:26
110	SCHAFER Timo	Bike Aid	1:28
111	BAI Li Jun	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	1:32
112	SUNDERLAND Dylan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	1:39
113	ELLIOTT Nathan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
114	BEVILACQUA Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	2:07
115	LEA Jason	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
116	VIEL Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	3:16
117	FITZPATRICK Tom	RTS Racing	5:52

Final GC after stage 9:

1,481.4 kilometers raced at an average speed of 41.782 km/hr

1	MASNADA Fausto	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	35hr 27min 21sec
2	MÄDER Gino	Team Switzerland	@ 2sec
3	EL FARES Julien	Delko-Marseille Provence	0:10
4	SCHELLING Patrick	Vorarlberg Santic	0:56
5	LYU Xianjing	Hengxiang Cycling	0:59
6	PRADES Benjamín	Team UKYO	1:02
7	VELASCO Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	1:11
8	BADILATTI Matteo	Israel Cycling Academy	1:12
9	ARAQUE Rodrigo	Team UKYO	1:19
10	THALMANN Roland	Vorarlberg Santic	1:20
11	BOIVIN Guillaume	Israel Cycling Academy	1:27
12	VAN ENGELEN Adne	Bike Aid	1:42
13	ROTA Lorenzo	Bardiani-CSF	1:45
14	OVECHKIN Artem	Terengganu Cycling	1:54
15	CARISEY Clément	Israel Cycling Academy	2:00
16	HUCKER Robbie	Team UKYO	2:02
17	ORRICO Davide	Vorarlberg Santic	2:03
18	GUERIN Alexis	Delko-Marseille Provence	2:07
19	BANZER Gordian	Team Switzerland	2:42
20	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	3:15
21	PARRA Edwin Arnulfo	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	3:45
22	FEDELI Alessandro	Delko-Marseille Provence	3:56
23	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	3:58
24	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts	RTS Racing	4:07
25	ITO Masakazu	Nippo-Vini Fantini	4:15
26	MOSCA Jacopo	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	4:35
27	CHEN Mingrun	Hengxiang Cycling	4:44
28	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	5:19
29	BRAND Sam	Novo Nordisk	5:34
30	LIU Jianpeng	Hengxiang Cycling	5:43
31	DE JONGE Maarten	Monkey Town	5:46
32	SCHULTING Peter	Monkey Town	7:05
33	GOH Choon Huat	Terengganu Cycling	7:39
34	SANTORO Antonio	Monkey Town	8:18
35	POLIVODA Oleksandr	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	9:13
36	CHAVES Brayan	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	10:20
37	SLIK Ivar	Monkey Town	10:39
38	LEA Jason	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	11:06
39	SUNDERLAND Dylan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	11:42
40	BELLETTI Manuel	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	13:00
41	MONSALVE Yonathan	Qinghai Tianyoude	13:19
42	MAESTRI Mirco	Bardiani-CSF	13:54
43	MARANGONI Alan	Nippo-Vini Fantini	15:21
44	KREDER Raymond	Team UKYO	15:46
45	FRAPPORTI Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	15:48
46	MEILER Lukas	Vorarlberg Santic	16:20
47	HENDRICKS Clint	Bike Aid	17:29
48	WACKERMANN Luca	Bardiani-CSF	20:00
49	SCHNEITER Joab	Team Switzerland	21:15
50	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	21:56
51	CIMA Imerio	Nippo-Vini Fantini	22:05
52	MAZUKI Nur Amirul	Terengganu Cycling	24:22
53	STEIMLE Jannik	Vorarlberg Santic	24:30
54	PACIONI Luca	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	24:36
55	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	24:41
56	TOOVEY Ayden	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	25:32
57	LI Zisen	Qinghai Tianyoude	26:58
58	ORTEGA Mauricio	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	27:03
59	BOUGLAS Georgios	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	28:33
60	GOLDSTEIN Roy	Israel Cycling Academy	29:55
61	BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-Bayar	RTS Racing	32:23
62	HENTTALA Joonas	Novo Nordisk	33:37
63	GUO Liang	Giant Cycling Team	34:06
64	WILLIAMS Tyler	Israel Cycling Academy	34:41
65	IRVINE Declan	Novo Nordisk	35:59
66	GU Bingcheng	Giant Cycling Team	36:19
67	YOSHIOKA Naoya	Team UKYO	36:28
68	BATMUNKH Maral-Erdene	Terengganu Cycling	36:57
69	YOSHIDA Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	37:07
70	ZHENG Zhang	Hengxiang Cycling	37:19
71	KOSHEVOY Ilia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	37:41
72	OKAMOTO Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	39:25
73	FRAPPORTI Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	39:58
74	KLEIMAN Wim	Monkey Town	40:23
75	SMUKULIS Gatis	Delko-Marseille Provence	40:59
76	SALEH Mohd Zamri	Terengganu Cycling	41:08
77	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	41:11
78	CALABRIA Fabio	Novo Nordisk	41:16
79	SWEENY Harry	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	42:00
80	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	42:47
81	SHI Hang	Giant Cycling Team	43:03
82	MARECZKO Jakub	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	44:05
83	GIACOPPO Anthony	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	44:49
84	LI Jin Song	Giant Cycling Team	45:04
85	GUTIERREZ Pedro	Qinghai Tianyoude	45:20
86	ZHANG Chunlong	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	46:28
87	HIRAI Eiichi	Team UKYO	46:52
88	VOSEKALNS Andris	Hengxiang Cycling	46:58
89	WANG Bo	Hengxiang Cycling	47:05
90	PAGE Dylan	Team Switzerland	47:24
91	LOOIJ André	Monkey Town	47:34
92	WARD Tristan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	47:40
93	CLANCY Stephen	Novo Nordisk	47:45
94	LIU Jiankun	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	48:25
95	VIEL Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	48:26
96	HENNESSY Jacob	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	48:32
97	YOKOTSUKA Kohei	Team UKYO	48:56
98	QIAO Feng	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	49:21
99	BEVILACQUA Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	49:45
100	NIU Yikui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	50:10
101	BISSEGGER Stefan	Team Switzerland	50:40
102	BENFATTO Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	51:13
103	STALLAERT Joeri	Vorarlberg Santic	51:22
104	ELLIOTT Nathan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	51:54
105	MEYER Robin	Delko-Marseille Provence	52:00
106	YAN Meng	Hengxiang Cycling	54:25
107	BAI Li Jun	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	54:51
108	VAN RHEE Joey	Monkey Town	55:37
109	EINHORN Itamar	Israel Cycling Academy	56:50
110	UCHIMA Kohei	Nippo-Vini Fantini	58:59
111	TURRIN Alex	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	59:21
112	THÖMEL Tino	Bike Aid	1:00:55
113	FITZPATRICK Tom	RTS Racing	1:01:48
114	JIANG Zhi Hui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	1:03:45
115	SCHAFER Timo	Bike Aid	1:07:14
116	SCHNAPKA Matthias	Bike Aid	1:12:26
117	WANG Jiancai	Qinghai Tianyoude	1:31:50

Tuesday, October 30: Stage 8, Longmuwan - Chanjiang, 197.2 km

Fausto Masnada

Fausto Masnada wins the queen stage and takes the GC lead.

The race: Here's the organizer's recap.

The queen stage of the Country Garden Cup 13th Tour of Hainan turned out to be a battle between Fausto and Gino as duellists Masnada and Mäder carry the same first names as cycling’s greats Coppi and Bartali. The Italian from Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec is on the verge of winning the overall race in Danzhou after stage 9 as he enjoys two seconds lead over the young prodigy of the Swiss national team.

Breakaway riders Roy Goldstein who is the Israel national champion (Israel Cycling Academy), Joey van Rhee and Peter Schulting (Monkey Town), Ukraine’s national champion Oleksandr Polivoda (Ningxia-Livall) and Kohei Uchima (Nippo-Vini Fantini) got a maximum advantage of 10’15’’, which made the race hard for everyone as the protagonists of the overall classification had to chase seriously to reduce the gap to Schulting who was the highest ranked escapee with a 2’ deficit. Uchima got dropped 50km to go while the time difference was still over five minutes. Van Rhee was the second rider to surrender with 12km to go and Polivoda the third one at the bottom of the 7km conclusive climb.

This was the first ever hilltop finish at the Tour of Hainan. Schulting was alone in the lead 6km before the end. Defending champion Jacopo Mosca of Wilier Triestina attacked from the peloton. As soon as he got reeled in, Simon Pellaud upped the tempo for the Swiss national team. With 4.5km to go, Schulting was passed by a group of five riders including Masnada, Mäder and Lyu Xianjing (Hengxiang). Matteo Badilatti (Israel Cycling Academy) and Julien El Farès (Delko Marseille-Provence KTM) made it across within 3km to go but couldn’t follow an acceleration by Mäder.

It came down to a duel between Masnada and Mäder in the last kilometre. Masnada rode away 600 metres before the line and caught a well-deserved victory as well as the yellow jersey with an advantage of two seconds on the eve of the conclusive stage in Danzhou.

Rider quotes after the stage:

Stage winner and race leader Fausto Masnada (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec): “I don’t think my parents called me Fausto with the idea that I’d beat someone called Gino [in reference to Fausto Coppi and Gino Bartali] because they had nothing to do with cycling when I was born. I would be happy if I could do half of what the great Coppi did on the bike. I knew I was going well but I didn’t know the climb, neither my adversaries. It’s been a demanding race all the way because of the wind. I gave everything and I managed to make this coup. I climbed at my rhythm. Gino’s interest was to stay on my wheel because he was the virtual leader. I sped up to make a difference. At 600 meters to go, I looked behind and I realized I was alone and I went flat out until the finish. It’s even better to get the yellow jersey. We came here with a great team. We always remained united and won three stages before this one. Today’s been the ice on the cake. It’s my first pro win. It was worth waiting till the end of the season to get it. I’ve been chasing it since the beginning of the year and I’ve been close on a few occasions, even at the Giro d’Italia. There’s one stage remaining. It’ll be another long one with 182km. We have sprinters who can target one more stage victory even though the overall classification will be our priority now. We’ll do our best to conclude this wonderful race in style. Coming to Hainan, I didn’t expect to see such a big island with such a big population. I’ve enjoyed my time here very much.”

Gino Mäder (Swiss national team), second: “Fausto Masnada was too strong for me and he deserves his victory. He attacked me from far out. I tried to follow him. I yelled at him ok you can go and win the stage but let me follow, however, I couldn’t speak anymore, I yelled, I yelled, but he kept accelerating. Eventually, I lost two seconds too much on him but I have no regrets because he was really stronger than me. It’s only my second time riding for GC [third at the Tour de l’Avenir]. I’m learning a lot at this Tour of Hainan. I’m truly happy with what I’ve achieved and what the Swiss team has done for me. They’ve supported me greatly over the eight stages. I’m thankful to the team and the race organizers. It’s cool to be here.”

Julien El Farès (Delko Marseille-Provence KTM): “I came third overall in the Tour of Hainan before [in 2015] but this was the first time for the race to have an uphill finish. According to the road book this climb was very hard but I can confirm it’s a gruelling climb! I suffered a lot but I tried to do my best up the hill. My team did a very good job. Third is probably the best result I could get up there.”

Points classification leader Raymond Kreder (Ukyo): “Before the stage, I already knew this climb was too hard for me to retain the yellow jersey, so we decided to go for Benjamin Prades for the GC. After all the work my team-mates have done for me those last couple of days, it was good to give the team something back, so I pulled a fair bit at the front of the peloton. I’m still happy with my green jersey and I’ll defend it tomorrow.”

Complete results:

197.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.104 km/hr

1	MASNADA Fausto	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4hr 55min 2sec
2	MÄDER Gino	Team Switzerland	@ 5sec
3	EL FARES Julien	Delko-Marseille Provence	0:06
4	LYU Xianjing	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
5	BADILATTI Matteo	Israel Cycling Academy	0:14
6	PRADES Benjamín	Team UKYO	0:44
7	VAN ENGELEN Adne	Bike Aid	s.t.
8	SCHELLING Patrick	Vorarlberg Santic	0:46
9	CARISEY Clément	Israel Cycling Academy	0:50
10	OVECHKIN Artem	Terengganu Cycling	0:56
11	VELASCO Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	0:58
12	ARAQUE Rodrigo	Team UKYO	1:01
13	THALMANN Roland	Vorarlberg Santic	1:07
14	HUCKER Robbie	Team UKYO	1:09
15	ORTEGA Mauricio	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	1:13
16	GUERIN Alexis	Delko-Marseille Provence	1:19
17	BOIVIN Guillaume	Israel Cycling Academy	1:20
18	ROTA Lorenzo	Bardiani-CSF	1:46
19	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	1:48
20	ORRICO Davide	Vorarlberg Santic	1:50
21	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts	RTS Racing	2:02
22	ITO Masakazu	Nippo-Vini Fantini	2:05
23	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	2:08
24	PARRA Edwin Arnulfo	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	2:24
25	BANZER Gordian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
26	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	3:03
27	BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-Bayar	RTS Racing	s.t.
28	FEDELI Alessandro	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
29	CHEN Mingrun	Hengxiang Cycling	3:13
30	SANTORO Antonio	Monkey Town	3:21
31	MOSCA Jacopo	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	3:26
32	BRAND Sam	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
33	LIU Jianpeng	Hengxiang Cycling	3:36
34	LI Zisen	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
35	DE JONGE Maarten	Monkey Town	3:41
36	WACKERMANN Luca	Bardiani-CSF	3:45
37	GU Bingcheng	Giant Cycling Team	3:53
38	CHAVES Brayan	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	4:12
39	SCHULTING Peter	Monkey Town	5:21
40	MONSALVE Yonathan	Qinghai Tianyoude	5:26
41	FRAPPORTI Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
42	GOH Choon Huat	Terengganu Cycling	5:29
43	HENTTALA Joonas	Novo Nordisk	6:39
44	IRVINE Declan	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
45	GOLDSTEIN Roy	Israel Cycling Academy	7:05
46	POLIVODA Oleksandr	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
47	WILLIAMS Tyler	Israel Cycling Academy	7:14
48	SLIK Ivar	Monkey Town	s.t.
49	GUO Liang	Giant Cycling Team	7:42
50	LEA Jason	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	7:50
51	SUNDERLAND Dylan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	8:14
52	MEILER Lukas	Vorarlberg Santic	8:39
53	BATMUNKH Maral-Erdene	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
54	MARANGONI Alan	Nippo-Vini Fantini	9:23
55	YOSHIDA Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
56	OKAMOTO Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	10:05
57	GUTIERREZ Pedro	Qinghai Tianyoude	10:19
58	CALABRIA Fabio	Novo Nordisk	10:54
59	FRAPPORTI Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	11:16
60	BELLETTI Manuel	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
61	CIMA Imerio	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
62	SHI Hang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
63	VIEL Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	11:21
64	CLANCY Stephen	Novo Nordisk	11:23
65	KLEIMAN Wim	Monkey Town	s.t.
66	TURRIN Alex	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	11:25
67	MAESTRI Mirco	Bardiani-CSF	11:51
68	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
69	SCHNAPKA Matthias	Bike Aid	s.t.
70	SALEH Mohd Zamri	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
71	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
72	ZHANG Chunlong	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	11:56
73	ZHENG Zhang	Hengxiang Cycling	12:54
74	VOSEKALNS Andris	Hengxiang Cycling	12:59
75	SMUKULIS Gatis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
76	BOUGLAS Georgios	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
77	KOSHEVOY Ilia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	13:01
78	LIU Jiankun	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	13:41
79	LI Jin Song	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
80	WARD Tristan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
81	TOOVEY Ayden	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
82	STEIMLE Jannik	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
83	LOOIJ André	Monkey Town	s.t.
84	MARECZKO Jakub	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
85	PAGE Dylan	Team Switzerland	s.t.
86	EINHORN Itamar	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
87	PACIONI Luca	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
88	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
89	BEVILACQUA Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
90	MONSALVE Ralph	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
91	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
92	SCHNEITER Joab	Team Switzerland	s.t.
93	HENDRICKS Clint	Bike Aid	s.t.
94	HENNESSY Jacob	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	14:33
95	BAI Li Jun	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	14:43
96	SWEENY Harry	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	15:12
97	GIACOPPO Anthony	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	15:17
98	BISSEGGER Stefan	Team Switzerland	s.t.
99	WANG Bo	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
100	ELLIOTT Nathan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
101	JIANG Zhi Hui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
102	QIAO Feng	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
103	FITZPATRICK Tom	RTS Racing	s.t.
104	NIU Yikui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	15:22
105	YOKOTSUKA Kohei	Team UKYO	15:26
106	KREDER Raymond	Team UKYO	15:50
107	BENFATTO Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	17:20
108	STALLAERT Joeri	Vorarlberg Santic	17:23
109	MEYER Robin	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
110	VAN RHEE Joey	Monkey Town	18:26
111	MAZUKI Nur Amirul	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
112	YAN Meng	Hengxiang Cycling	18:54
113	SCHAFER Timo	Bike Aid	22:00
114	THÖMEL Tino	Bike Aid	23:12
115	HIRAI Eiichi	Team UKYO	23:16
116	YOSHIOKA Naoya	Team UKYO	s.t.
117	UCHIMA Kohei	Nippo-Vini Fantini	23:39
118	WANG Jiancai	Qinghai Tianyoude	50:03

GC after Stage 8:

1,299.5 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 41.555 km/hr

1	MASNADA Fausto	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	31hr 16min 18sec
2	MÄDER Gino	Team Switzerland	@ 2sec
3	EL FARES Julien	Delko-Marseille Provence	0:10
4	SCHELLING Patrick	Vorarlberg Santic	0:56
5	PRADES Benjamín	Team UKYO	0:57
6	LYU Xianjing	Hengxiang Cycling	0:59
7	BADILATTI Matteo	Israel Cycling Academy	1:07
8	VELASCO Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	1:11
9	ARAQUE Rodrigo	Team UKYO	1:14
10	THALMANN Roland	Vorarlberg Santic	1:20
11	BOIVIN Guillaume	Israel Cycling Academy	1:27
12	VAN ENGELEN Adne	Bike Aid	1:37
13	OVECHKIN Artem	Terengganu Cycling	1:49
14	CARISEY Clément	Israel Cycling Academy	1:55
15	ROTA Lorenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
16	HUCKER Robbie	Team UKYO	2:02
17	ORRICO Davide	Vorarlberg Santic	2:03
18	GUERIN Alexis	Delko-Marseille Provence	2:07
19	BANZER Gordian	Team Switzerland	2:37
20	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	3:36
21	PARRA Edwin Arnulfo	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	3:50
22	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	3:53
23	FEDELI Alessandro	Delko-Marseille Provence	3:56
24	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts	RTS Racing	4:07
25	ITO Masakazu	Nippo-Vini Fantini	4:10
26	MOSCA Jacopo	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	4:18
27	CHEN Mingrun	Hengxiang Cycling	4:39
28	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	5:14
29	BRAND Sam	Novo Nordisk	5:29
30	LIU Jianpeng	Hengxiang Cycling	5:38
31	DE JONGE Maarten	Monkey Town	5:46
32	SCHULTING Peter	Monkey Town	7:20
33	GOH Choon Huat	Terengganu Cycling	7:34
34	SANTORO Antonio	Monkey Town	8:13
35	POLIVODA Oleksandr	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	9:08
36	LEA Jason	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	9:15
37	SUNDERLAND Dylan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	10:13
38	CHAVES Brayan	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	10:15
39	SLIK Ivar	Monkey Town	10:34
40	MONSALVE Yonathan	Qinghai Tianyoude	12:46
41	BELLETTI Manuel	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	13:00
42	MAESTRI Mirco	Bardiani-CSF	13:54
43	MARANGONI Alan	Nippo-Vini Fantini	15:26
44	FRAPPORTI Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	15:43
45	KREDER Raymond	Team UKYO	15:46
46	MEILER Lukas	Vorarlberg Santic	15:47
47	HENDRICKS Clint	Bike Aid	17:24
48	WACKERMANN Luca	Bardiani-CSF	19:13
49	SCHNEITER Joab	Team Switzerland	21:01
50	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	21:27
51	CIMA Imerio	Nippo-Vini Fantini	22:05
52	TOOVEY Ayden	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	24:21
53	MAZUKI Nur Amirul	Terengganu Cycling	24:22
54	STEIMLE Jannik	Vorarlberg Santic	24:30
55	PACIONI Luca	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	24:36
56	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
57	ORTEGA Mauricio	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	26:46
58	LI Zisen	Qinghai Tianyoude	26:53
59	BOUGLAS Georgios	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	28:33
60	GOLDSTEIN Roy	Israel Cycling Academy	29:50
61	BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-Bayar	RTS Racing	32:23
62	HENTTALA Joonas	Novo Nordisk	33:32
63	GUO Liang	Giant Cycling Team	33:33
64	WILLIAMS Tyler	Israel Cycling Academy	34:36
65	YOSHIOKA Naoya	Team UKYO	35:12
66	BATMUNKH Maral-Erdene	Terengganu Cycling	35:32
67	IRVINE Declan	Novo Nordisk	35:59
68	GU Bingcheng	Giant Cycling Team	36:05
69	KOSHEVOY Ilia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	36:30
70	YOSHIDA Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	37:02
71	ZHENG Zhang	Hengxiang Cycling	37:14
72	KLEIMAN Wim	Monkey Town	39:12
73	OKAMOTO Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	39:25
74	FRAPPORTI Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
75	SMUKULIS Gatis	Delko-Marseille Provence	40:26
76	SALEH Mohd Zamri	Terengganu Cycling	41:08
77	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	41:11
78	CALABRIA Fabio	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
79	SWEENY Harry	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	42:05
80	SHI Hang	Giant Cycling Team	42:30
81	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	42:47
82	MARECZKO Jakub	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	44:05
83	GIACOPPO Anthony	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	44:16
84	LI Jin Song	Giant Cycling Team	44:17
85	GUTIERREZ Pedro	Qinghai Tianyoude	44:47
86	VIEL Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	45:20
87	ZHANG Chunlong	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	45:55
88	WANG Bo	Hengxiang Cycling	46:00
89	HIRAI Eiichi	Team UKYO	46:32
90	VOSEKALNS Andris	Hengxiang Cycling	46:58
91	CLANCY Stephen	Novo Nordisk	47:14
92	PAGE Dylan	Team Switzerland	47:24
93	LOOIJ André	Monkey Town	47:34
94	WARD Tristan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	47:40
95	BEVILACQUA Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	47:48
96	LIU Jiankun	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	47:52
97	YOKOTSUKA Kohei	Team UKYO	48:23
98	MONSALVE Ralph	Qinghai Tianyoude	48:30
99	HENNESSY Jacob	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	48:32
100	QIAO Feng	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	49:16
101	NIU Yikui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	49:37
102	ELLIOTT Nathan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	50:25
103	BISSEGGER Stefan	Team Switzerland	50:35
104	MEYER Robin	Delko-Marseille Provence	51:03
105	BENFATTO Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	51:08
106	STALLAERT Joeri	Vorarlberg Santic	51:22
107	BAI Li Jun	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	53:29
108	YAN Meng	Hengxiang Cycling	53:52
109	VAN RHEE Joey	Monkey Town	55:13
110	FITZPATRICK Tom	RTS Racing	56:06
111	EINHORN Itamar	Israel Cycling Academy	56:50
112	UCHIMA Kohei	Nippo-Vini Fantini	58:26
113	TURRIN Alex	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	58:32
114	THÖMEL Tino	Bike Aid	1:00:55
115	JIANG Zhi Hui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	1:02:41
116	SCHAFER Timo	Bike Aid	1:05:56
117	SCHNAPKA Matthias	Bike Aid	1:12:21
118	WANG Jiancai	Qinghai Tianyoude	1:31:17

Monday, October 29: Stage 7, Wuzhishan - Sanya, 127.3 km

Marco Benfatto

Marco Benfatto (far left, in red & white kit) takes the seventh stage.

The race: Here's the organizer's stage summary.

Italy’s Marco Benfatto of Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec whose name means “well done” claimed stage 7 of the Country Garden Cup 13th Tour of Hainan as he and his compatriots outsprinted the rest of the field to take the top four positions on the line with Imerio Cima, Andrea Guardini and Manuel Belletti in second, third and fourth place. Race leader Raymond Kreder of Ukyo finished fifth and retained the yellow jersey ahead of the much awaited queen stage to Changjiang.

Davide Ballerini was a non-starter in Wuzhishan so the options of the Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec team for winning a bunch sprint were reduced to two, which was still the double of most of the other squads. It came down to choosing between Manuel Belletti and Marco Benfatto who would be their top end sprinter. Although Belletti gave some guarantees after being the only rider to have won two stages at the Tour of Hainan this year, he gave way to his team-mate who made it clear during the race that he was up for it. Despite the threat of the likes of Jakub Mareczko who was unbeaten in Sanya where he took his first ever Asian victory in 2015 and repeated his success last year, Benfatto was smart to wait for the very last moment to get out of the box and overtake his compatriots.

Chinese sensation Lyu Xianjing from Hengxiang sprinted for five more KOM points atop the first hill of stage 7 only 6km after the start in Wuzhishan, then it was a hard battle for breaking away in the downhill heading to the south coast of Hainan. After 37km of racing, Australia’s Jason Lea (Bennelong-Swisswellness) and Jiang Zhihui (Mitchelton-BikeExchange) managed to ride away. They were rejoined by Dutchman Wim Kleiman (Monkey Town).

With 50km to go, their advantage was 2’30’’ after they had registered a maximum gap of 3’30’’. 25km before the finish, Lea made it back to the front group after a front wheel puncture. The trio got caught 2km before the inevitable bunch gallop. Many riders were racing with the 7km uphill finish in Changjiang that is set to shape the final overall classification on the eve of the grand finale in Danzhou.

Quotes of the day:
Stage 7 winner Marco Benfatto (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec): “It was either [double stage winner] Manuel Belletti or myself to sprint for Androni today and I told him that I felt very well, he replied that I should go for it. Everything went well. I took a good position. It was a very fast sprint and the key was to get out of the box the nearest possible from the finish line. I have had very good experiences in China before but this is my first time at the Tour of Hainan. It’s a very good organisation and the roads are suitable for an excellent race.”

Imerio Cima (Nippo-Vini Fantini), second: I almost believed I was going to win until 25 metres to go but there was a bit of a headwind and Marco Benfatto passed me at the very end. Congratulations to the winner. I opened my sprint from a bit far out because it was a bit chaotic in the curve 800 metres before the end but this is cycling and it’s been a regular sprint. After the bad luck that kept me away from racing for three months this year, today I wanted to make a birthday gift to myself with a victory but I’m still happy with the second place.”

Andrea Guardini (Bardiani-CSF), third: “At 700 metres to go, I was on [Mirko] Maestri and [Paolo] Simion. We were in tenth position before launching the sprint on the right side. At 300 metres, I found myself battling against [Jakub] Mareczko to stay behind my train. To anticipate him, I made the mistake to start maybe a bit too early. There was a headwind and that has played against me but in favour of Marco Benfatto. He did well.”

Overall leader Raymond Kreder (Ukyo): “Italian sprinters are always doing very well in China. In the past couple of years, they’ve sent some of their best sprinters here. Another top 3 for them today shows that they like to race in China. I finished just behind them. Tomorrow, I expect to lose the yellow jersey, hopefully to my team-mate Benjamin Prades who is in a good shape. So far, he didn’t lose any time. He was always in the front group. He was with the best riders at the top of the climb yesterday. Tomorrow he has a big chance to better his second position overall from last year. We’ll help him as much as we can. To be realistic, the climb will be too hard for me.”

King of the Mountains and best Asian rider Lyu Xinjiang (Hengxiang): “I’m very tired after seven stages, as I’m not use to do stage races on the road. But I’m very happy to retain those two jerseys today although it required a lot of efforts again. My team-mates helped me to catch the points of the first KOM, after which I tried to save energy in the peloton. I don’t know too much about the hilltop finish tomorrow but I’ll do my best.”

Most active rider Jason Lea (Bennelong-Swisswellness): “It was a pretty aggressive start on the first KOM. Pretty much all the teams wanted to be in the break today, being a short stage and not knowing how people put up from the previous two days but I managed to get away with one of the Mitchelton riders [Jiang Zhihui] and a Monkey Town rider [Wim Kleinman] and we worked pretty well all day together. We’ve been caught at about 2km to go. It’s a shame it was so close to the finish. But we gave it 100%. It is what it is.”

Complete results:

127.3 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.180 km/hr

1	BENFATTO Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	2hr 52min 53sec
2	CIMA Imerio	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
3	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
4	BELLETTI Manuel	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
5	KREDER Raymond	Team UKYO	s.t.
6	EINHORN Itamar	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
7	LOOIJ André	Monkey Town	s.t.
8	PAGE Dylan	Team Switzerland	s.t.
9	STEIMLE Jannik	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
10	FEDELI Alessandro	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
11	WARD Tristan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
12	BOIVIN Guillaume	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
13	BOUGLAS Georgios	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
14	HENNESSY Jacob	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
15	OKAMOTO Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
16	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
17	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts	RTS Racing	s.t.
18	SALEH Mohd Zamri	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
19	VELASCO Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
20	THÖMEL Tino	Bike Aid	s.t.
21	CALABRIA Fabio	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
22	VAN RHEE Joey	Monkey Town	s.t.
23	LI Zisen	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
24	GOLDSTEIN Roy	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
25	IRVINE Declan	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
26	MARECZKO Jakub	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
27	BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-Bayar	RTS Racing	s.t.
28	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	s.t.
29	YOSHIDA Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
30	MAZUKI Nur Amirul	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
31	CLANCY Stephen	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
32	HUCKER Robbie	Team UKYO	s.t.
33	ZHENG Zhang	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
34	VOSEKALNS Andris	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
35	PRADES Benjamín	Team UKYO	s.t.
36	DE JONGE Maarten	Monkey Town	s.t.
37	CHAVES Brayan	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
38	EL FARES Julien	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
39	PARRA Edwin Arnulfo	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
40	KIPKEMBOI Salim	Bike Aid	s.t.
41	BANZER Gordian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
42	MÄDER Gino	Team Switzerland	s.t.
43	HENDRICKS Clint	Bike Aid	s.t.
44	VIEL Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
45	SWEENY Harry	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
46	GUERIN Alexis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
47	ZHANG Chunlong	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
48	SCHELLING Patrick	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
49	THALMANN Roland	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
50	MAESTRI Mirco	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
51	STALLAERT Joeri	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
52	MASNADA Fausto	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
53	FRAPPORTI Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
54	LYU Xianjing	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
55	SLIK Ivar	Monkey Town	s.t.
56	GUO Liang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
57	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
58	HENTTALA Joonas	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
59	OVECHKIN Artem	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
60	ORRICO Davide	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
61	ROTA Lorenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
62	ARAQUE Rodrigo	Team UKYO	s.t.
63	MARANGONI Alan	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
64	SUNDERLAND Dylan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
65	ITO Masakazu	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
66	LIU Jianpeng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
67	GOH Choon Huat	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
68	VAN ENGELEN Adne	Bike Aid	s.t.
69	WILLIAMS Tyler	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
70	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
71	CHEN Mingrun	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
72	BEVILACQUA Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
73	BRAND Sam	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
74	PACIONI Luca	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
75	FRAPPORTI Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
76	MEILER Lukas	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
77	BADILATTI Matteo	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
78	MOSCA Jacopo	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
79	QIAO Feng	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
80	SCHULTING Peter	Monkey Town	s.t.
81	POLIVODA Oleksandr	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
82	LEA Jason	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
83	SANTORO Antonio	Monkey Town	s.t.
84	BATMUNKH Maral-Erdene	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
85	ORTEGA Mauricio	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
86	GIACOPPO Anthony	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	@ 12sec
87	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
88	SMUKULIS Gatis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
89	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
90	LEVEAU Jérémy	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
91	LIU Jiankun	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
92	MONSALVE Yonathan	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
93	JIANG Zhi Hui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
94	TURRIN Alex	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
95	BAI Li Jun	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
96	MONSALVE Ralph	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
97	KLEIMAN Wim	Monkey Town	s.t.
98	CARISEY Clément	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
99	GU Bingcheng	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
100	SCHNEITER Joab	Team Switzerland	s.t.
101	SHI Hang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
102	SCHNAPKA Matthias	Bike Aid	s.t.
103	TOOVEY Ayden	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	0:18
104	FITZPATRICK Tom	RTS Racing	0:22
105	NIU Yikui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
106	WANG Jiancai	Qinghai Tianyoude	0:24
107	WU Yi Chang	RTS Racing	0:27
108	KOSHEVOY Ilia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	0:29
109	GUTIERREZ Pedro	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
110	LI Jin Song	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
111	YAN Meng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
112	MEYER Robin	Delko-Marseille Provence	0:35
113	HIRAI Eiichi	Team UKYO	s.t.
114	SCHAFER Timo	Bike Aid	0:38
115	WANG Bo	Hengxiang Cycling	0:52
116	BISSEGGER Stefan	Team Switzerland	1:06
117	ELLIOTT Nathan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	1:10
118	WACKERMANN Luca	Bardiani-CSF	2:41
119	UCHIMA Kohei	Nippo-Vini Fantini	2:42
120	YOKOTSUKA Kohei	Team UKYO	s.t.
121	YOSHIOKA Naoya	Team UKYO	5:53

GC after Stage 7:

1,102.3 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 41.828 km/hr

1	KREDER Raymond	Team UKYO	26hr 21min 12sec
2	MÄDER Gino	Team Switzerland	@ 7sec
3	BOIVIN Guillaume	Israel Cycling Academy	0:11
4	EL FARES Julien	Delko-Marseille Provence	0:12
5	ROTA Lorenzo	Bardiani-CSF	0:13
6	MASNADA Fausto	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	0:14
7	SCHELLING Patrick	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
8	VELASCO Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	0:17
9	PRADES Benjamín	Team UKYO	s.t.
10	BANZER Gordian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
11	ORRICO Davide	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
12	THALMANN Roland	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
13	ARAQUE Rodrigo	Team UKYO	s.t.
14	GUERIN Alexis	Delko-Marseille Provence	0:52
15	MOSCA Jacopo	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	0:56
16	FEDELI Alessandro	Delko-Marseille Provence	0:57
17	HUCKER Robbie	Team UKYO	s.t.
18	LYU Xianjing	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
19	OVECHKIN Artem	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
20	VAN ENGELEN Adne	Bike Aid	s.t.
21	BADILATTI Matteo	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
22	CARISEY Clément	Israel Cycling Academy	1:09
23	LEA Jason	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	1:29
24	PARRA Edwin Arnulfo	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	1:30
25	CHEN Mingrun	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
26	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	1:32
27	BELLETTI Manuel	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:48
28	SUNDERLAND Dylan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	2:03
29	SCHULTING Peter	Monkey Town	2:05
30	LIU Jianpeng	Hengxiang Cycling	2:06
31	MAESTRI Mirco	Bardiani-CSF	2:07
32	BRAND Sam	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
33	DE JONGE Maarten	Monkey Town	2:09
34	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts	RTS Racing	s.t.
35	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
36	POLIVODA Oleksandr	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
37	GOH Choon Huat	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
38	ITO Masakazu	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
39	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	2:15
40	SLIK Ivar	Monkey Town	3:24
41	HENDRICKS Clint	Bike Aid	3:47
42	FRAPPORTI Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4:31
43	SANTORO Antonio	Monkey Town	4:56
44	MAZUKI Nur Amirul	Terengganu Cycling	6:00
45	CHAVES Brayan	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	6:07
46	MARANGONI Alan	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
47	MEILER Lukas	Vorarlberg Santic	7:12
48	MONSALVE Yonathan	Qinghai Tianyoude	7:24
49	SCHNEITER Joab	Team Switzerland	s.t.
50	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	9:40
51	TOOVEY Ayden	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	10:44
52	CIMA Imerio	Nippo-Vini Fantini	10:53
53	STEIMLE Jannik	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
54	PACIONI Luca	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	10:59
55	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
56	YOSHIOKA Naoya	Team UKYO	12:00
57	WACKERMANN Luca	Bardiani-CSF	15:32
58	BOUGLAS Georgios	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	15:38
59	LEVEAU Jérémy	Delko-Marseille Provence	20:12
60	GOLDSTEIN Roy	Israel Cycling Academy	22:52
61	HIRAI Eiichi	Team UKYO	23:20
62	LI Zisen	Qinghai Tianyoude	23:21
63	KOSHEVOY Ilia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	23:33
64	ZHENG Zhang	Hengxiang Cycling	24:24
65	KIPKEMBOI Salim	Bike Aid	25:37
66	ORTEGA Mauricio	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
67	GUO Liang	Giant Cycling Team	25:55
68	SWEENY Harry	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	26:57
69	HENTTALA Joonas	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
70	BATMUNKH Maral-Erdene	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
71	WILLIAMS Tyler	Israel Cycling Academy	27:26
72	SMUKULIS Gatis	Delko-Marseille Provence	27:31
73	YOSHIDA Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	27:43
74	KLEIMAN Wim	Monkey Town	27:53
75	GIACOPPO Anthony	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	29:03
76	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	29:10
77	SALEH Mohd Zamri	Terengganu Cycling	29:21
78	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	29:24
79	OKAMOTO Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
80	IRVINE Declan	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
81	BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-Bayar	RTS Racing	s.t.
82	CALABRIA Fabio	Novo Nordisk	30:21
83	MARECZKO Jakub	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	30:28
84	LI Jin Song	Giant Cycling Team	30:40
85	WANG Bo	Hengxiang Cycling	30:47
86	SHI Hang	Giant Cycling Team	31:18
87	GU Bingcheng	Giant Cycling Team	32:16
88	YOKOTSUKA Kohei	Team UKYO	33:01
89	MEYER Robin	Delko-Marseille Provence	33:44
90	PAGE Dylan	Team Switzerland	33:47
91	BENFATTO Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	33:52
92	LOOIJ André	Monkey Town	33:57
93	HENNESSY Jacob	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	34:03
94	WARD Tristan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
95	STALLAERT Joeri	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
96	VIEL Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
97	FRAPPORTI Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
98	VOSEKALNS Andris	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
99	QIAO Feng	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
100	ZHANG Chunlong	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
101	BEVILACQUA Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	34:11
102	LIU Jiankun	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	34:15
103	NIU Yikui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	34:19
104	GUTIERREZ Pedro	Qinghai Tianyoude	34:32
105	UCHIMA Kohei	Nippo-Vini Fantini	34:51
106	MONSALVE Ralph	Qinghai Tianyoude	34:53
107	YAN Meng	Hengxiang Cycling	35:02
108	WU Yi Chang	RTS Racing	35:08
109	ELLIOTT Nathan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	35:12
110	BISSEGGER Stefan	Team Switzerland	35:22
111	CLANCY Stephen	Novo Nordisk	35:55
112	VAN RHEE Joey	Monkey Town	36:56
113	THÖMEL Tino	Bike Aid	37:47
114	BAI Li Jun	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	38:50
115	FITZPATRICK Tom	RTS Racing	40:53
116	WANG Jiancai	Qinghai Tianyoude	41:18
117	EINHORN Itamar	Israel Cycling Academy	43:13
118	SCHAFER Timo	Bike Aid	44:00
119	TURRIN Alex	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	47:11
120	JIANG Zhi Hui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	47:28
121	SCHNAPKA Matthias	Bike Aid	1:00:34

Sunday, October 28: Stage 6, Lingshui - Wuzhishan, 193.2 km

Gino Madar

Gino Mader takes his first professional race win in Wuzhishan

The race: Here's the organizer's stage summary.

Gino Mader celebrates his first professional win in the Tour of Hainan today in Wuzishan thanks to an attack in the mountain stage.

Mader shot free on the final kick at two kilometres remaining and kept his rivals just behind when coming into the stage five finish line. The HC-ranked win counts as his first professional win after winning two prestigious stages in the amateur Tour de L'Avenir this summer.

Guillaume Boivin (Israel Cycling Academy) placed second and Lorenzo Rota (Bardiani-CSF) third.

"It was the queen stage last year too, and three of my team-mates were here then," Mader said. "They told me the uphill wasn't so hard and it's an easy downhill.

"I thought, in the sprint I will not win against Kreder and Boivin, so I went for an attack. I knew if I passed over the mountain, well, I could go over the stage win and get some bonus seconds. I was thinking for the GC and then doing the best possible for the day."

The GC or overall leader's yellow jersey moved to Raymond Kreder (Team Ukyo). He leads by seven seconds over Mader.

The stage travelled 193.2 kilometres from Lingshui to Wuzishan. In the early moments, riders attacked to move free, but in the back of everyone's mind was the final Atuoling climb and 12km descent to the finish.

Eight cyclists moved free at six kilometres into the race. Three of those riders jumped free: Gatis Smukulis (Delko Marseille Provence KTM), Itamar Einhorn (Israel Cycling Academy) and Stefan Bissegger (Swiss Cycling). After 25km, they led with about two minutes.

The three held 6-01 at the bottom of the day's final climb. Smukulis moved free on the climb, the others faded. Behind, the other riders started to attack and position themselves. Team Androni noticeably took charge.

"I knew I had the possibility to be in yellow and take points for the green jersey," Kreder said. I pushed hard on the climb, but with one kilometre to go, I exploded. On the top, I was maybe 30 seconds behind and my downhill skills are not bad. I went full gas on the descent, but I didn't have any power left in the sprint.

"I'm happy to now be in yellow for tomorrow, it's a good experience, finally after 5 days, I have it."

Mader's move came from a group of around 10 cyclists. With the win, he gained bonus seconds that puts him in second overall and within seven seconds of Kreder. In stage eight, he will be within reach of the lead and possible final win at the end of stage nine.

"I was always close to a stage victory," Kreder said. Today, I had a chance to be in yellow, I did all I could. I hope that the organiser cancels stage eight, it'd be better for me. I'm not a climber, but a sprinter. I wanted to try to win and go for yellow, I made it. But stage eight is going to be too hard for me."

"Kreder has the jersey," Mader said. "I think the next mountain will be too hard for him. There are a few good climbers in the group, but I think I'm amongst the best five, so of course, I'm going to try to go for the jersey and GC."

Stage seven travels to Sanya and should produce another sprint winner. Mader will have his eyes on stage eight, which finishes with a climb to Changjiang.

Complete results:

193.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 38.827 km/hr

1	MADER Gino	Team Switzerland	5hr 2min 27sec
2	BOIVIN Guillaume	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
3	ROTA Lorenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
4	EL FARES Julien	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
5	KREDER Raymond	Team UKYO	s.t.
6	ORRICO Davide	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
7	VELASCO Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
8	MASNADA Fausto	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
9	ARAQUE Rodrigo	Team UKYO	s.t.
10	SCHELLING Patrick	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
11	PRADES Benjamín	Team UKYO	s.t.
12	THALMANN Roland	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
13	BANZER Gordian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
14	GUERIN Alexis	Delko-Marseille Provence	@ 35sec
15	MOSCA Jacopo	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	0:40
16	OVECHKIN Artem	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
17	HUCKER Robbie	Team UKYO	s.t.
18	CARISEY Clément	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
19	VAN ENGELEN Adne	Bike Aid	s.t.
20	BADILATTI Matteo	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
21	LYU Xianjing	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
22	FEDELI Alessandro	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
23	CHEN Mingrun	Hengxiang Cycling	1:13
24	PARRA Edwin	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
25	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	1:15
26	LEA Jason	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
27	LEVEAU Jérémy	Delko-Marseille Provence	1:18
28	SUNDERLAND Dylan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	1:46
29	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
30	SCHULTING Peter	Monkey Town	1:52
31	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts	RTS Racing	s.t.
32	POLIVODA Oleksandr	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
33	LIU Jianpeng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
34	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
35	DE JONGE Maarten	Monkey Town	s.t.
36	ITO Masakazu	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
37	BRAND Sam	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
38	MAESTRI Mirco	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
39	GOH Choon Huat	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
40	BELLETTI Manuel	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:55
41	SLIK Ivar	Monkey Town	3:09
42	GOLDSTEIN Roy	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
43	HENDRICKS Clint	Bike Aid	s.t.
44	HIRAI Eiichi	Team UKYO	4:03
45	FRAPPORTI Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4:14
46	BALLERINI Davide	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
47	LI Zisen	Qinghai Tianyoude	4:39
48	SANTORO Antonio	Monkey Town	s.t.
49	MAZUKI Nur Amirul	Terengganu Cycling	5:50
50	YOSHIDA Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
51	CHAVES Brayan	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
52	ZHENG Zhang	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
53	MARANGONI Alan	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
54	YOSHIOKA Naoya	Team UKYO	s.t.
55	ORTEGA Mauricio	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	6:55
56	MEILER Lukas	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
57	SCHNEITER Joab	Team Switzerland	s.t.
58	KIPKEMBOI Salim	Bike Aid	s.t.
59	MONSALVE Yonathan	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
60	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	7:53
61	WACKERMANN Luca	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
62	KLEIMAN Wim	Monkey Town	8:15
63	HENTTALA Joonas	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
64	SWEENY Harry	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
65	SMUKULIS Gatis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
66	BATMUNKH Maral-Erdene	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
67	WILLIAMS Tyler	Israel Cycling Academy	8:52
68	GIACOPPO Anthony	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	10:09
69	TOOVEY Ayden	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
70	UCHIMA Kohei	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
71	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	10:42
72	CIMA Imerio	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
73	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
74	BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-Bayar	RTS Racing	s.t.
75	MARECZKO Jakub	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
76	IRVINE Declan	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
77	BEVILACQUA Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
78	CALABRIA Fabio	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
79	STEIMLE Jannik	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
80	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
81	PACIONI Luca	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
82	TURRIN Alex	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
83	SHI Hang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
84	WANG Bo	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
85	OKAMOTO Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
86	YOKOTSUKA Kohei	Team UKYO	s.t.
87	SALEH Mohd Zamri	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
88	KOSHEVOY Ilia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
89	LI Jin Song	Giant Cycling Team	11:29
90	GU Bingcheng	Giant Cycling Team	12:14
91	WU Yi Chang	RTS Racing	14:27
92	MEYER Robin	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
93	PAGE Dylan	Team Switzerland	15:21
94	BISSEGGER Stefan	Team Switzerland	s.t.
95	HENNESSY Jacob	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
96	LOOIJ André	Monkey Town	s.t.
97	BOUGLAS Georgios	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
98	VAN RHEE Joey	Monkey Town	s.t.
99	ELLIOTT Nathan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
100	QIAO Feng	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
101	ZHANG Chunlong	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
102	CLANCY Stephen	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
103	STALLAERT Joeri	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
104	VOSEKALNS Andris	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
105	FRAPPORTI Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
106	VIEL Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
107	JIANG Zhi Hui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
108	WARD Tristan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
109	LIU Jiankun	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
110	NIU Yikui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
111	MONSALVE Ralph	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
112	GUTIERREZ Pedro	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
113	YAN Meng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
114	BENFATTO Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
115	BAI Li Jun	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	15:50
116	GUO Liang	Giant Cycling Team	18:49
117	THÖMEL Tino	Bike Aid	18:57
118	SCHNAPKA Matthias	Bike Aid	19:15
119	SCHAFER Timo	Bike Aid	s.t.
120	FITZPATRICK Tom	RTS Racing	20:08
121	WANG Jiancai	Qinghai Tianyoude	21:11
122	EINHORN Itamar	Israel Cycling Academy	24:32

GC after stage 6:

975 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 41.539 km/hr

1	KREDER Raymond	Team UKYO	23hr 28min 19sec
2	MADER Gino	Team Switzerland	@ 7sec
3	BOIVIN Guillaume	Israel Cycling Academy	0:11
4	ROTA Lorenzo	Bardiani-CSF	0:13
5	MASNADA Fausto	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	0:14
6	SCHELLING Patrick	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
7	EL FARES Julien	Delko-Marseille Provence	0:15
8	VELASCO Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	0:17
9	PRADES Benjamín	Team UKYO	s.t.
10	ORRICO Davide	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
11	BANZER Gordian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
12	THALMANN Roland	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
13	ARAQUE Rodrigo	Team UKYO	s.t.
14	GUERIN Alexis	Delko-Marseille Provence	0:52
15	MOSCA Jacopo	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	0:56
16	FEDELI Alessandro	Delko-Marseille Provence	0:57
17	CARISEY Clément	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
18	HUCKER Robbie	Team UKYO	s.t.
19	LYU Xianjing	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
20	OVECHKIN Artem	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
21	VAN ENGELEN Adne	Bike Aid	s.t.
22	BADILATTI Matteo	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
23	PARRA Edwin Arnulfo	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	1:30
24	CHEN Mingrun	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
25	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	1:32
26	LEA Jason	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
27	BELLETTI Manuel	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	1:48
28	SUNDERLAND Dylan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	2:03
29	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
30	LIU Jianpeng	Hengxiang Cycling	2:06
31	MAESTRI Mirco	Bardiani-CSF	2:07
32	SCHULTING Peter	Monkey Town	s.t.
33	BRAND Sam	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
34	DE JONGE Maarten	Monkey Town	2:09
35	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts	RTS Racing	s.t.
36	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
37	POLIVODA Oleksandr	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
38	GOH Choon Huat	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
39	ITO Masakazu	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
40	SLIK Ivar	Monkey Town	3:24
41	HENDRICKS Clint	Bike Aid	3:47
42	BALLERINI Davide	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4:24
43	FRAPPORTI Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4:31
44	SANTORO Antonio	Monkey Town	4:56
45	MAZUKI Nur Amirul Fakhruddin	Terengganu Cycling	6:00
46	CHAVES Brayan	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	6:07
47	MARANGONI Alan	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
48	YOSHIOKA Naoya	Team UKYO	s.t.
49	MONSALVE Yonathan	Qinghai Tianyoude	7:12
50	MEILER Lukas	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
51	SCHNEITER Joab	Team Switzerland	s.t.
52	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	9:28
53	TOOVEY Ayden	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	10:26
54	STEIMLE Jannik	Vorarlberg Santic	10:53
55	CIMA Imerio	Nippo-Vini Fantini	10:59
56	PACIONI Luca	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
57	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
58	WACKERMANN Luca	Bardiani-CSF	12:51
59	BOUGLAS Georgios	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	15:38
60	LEVEAU Jérémy	Delko-Marseille Provence	20:00
61	HIRAI Eiichi	Team UKYO	22:45
62	GOLDSTEIN Roy	Israel Cycling Academy	22:52
63	KOSHEVOY Ilia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	23:04
64	LI Zisen	Qinghai Tianyoude	23:21
65	ZHENG Zhang	Hengxiang Cycling	24:24
66	KIPKEMBOI Salim	Bike Aid	25:37
67	ORTEGA Mauricio	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
68	GUO Liang	Giant Cycling Team	25:55
69	SWEENY Harry	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	26:57
70	HENTTALA Joonas	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
71	BATMUNKH Maral-erdene	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
72	SMUKULIS Gatis	Delko-Marseille Provence	27:19
73	WILLIAMS Tyler	Israel Cycling Academy	27:26
74	KLEIMAN Wim	Monkey Town	27:43
75	YOSHIDA Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
76	GIACOPPO Anthony	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	28:51
77	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	29:14
78	SALEH Mohd Zamri	Terengganu Cycling	29:21
79	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	29:24
80	OKAMOTO Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
81	IRVINE Declan	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
82	BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-bayar	RTS Racing	s.t.
83	WANG Bo	Hengxiang Cycling	29:55
84	LI Jin Song	Giant Cycling Team	30:11
85	YOKOTSUKA Kohei	Team UKYO	30:19
86	CALABRIA Fabio	Novo Nordisk	30:21
87	MARECZKO Jakub	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	30:28
88	SHI Hang	Giant Cycling Team	31:06
89	GU Bingcheng	Giant Cycling Team	32:04
90	UCHIMA Kohei	Nippo-Vini Fantini	32:09
91	MEYER Robin	Delko-Marseille Provence	33:09
92	PAGE Dylan	Team Switzerland	33:47
93	LOOIJ André	Monkey Town	33:57
94	NIU Yikui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
95	ELLIOTT Nathan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	34:02
96	BENFATTO Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	34:03
97	HENNESSY Jacob	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
98	STALLAERT Joeri	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
99	WARD Tristan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
100	VIEL Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
101	FRAPPORTI Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
102	GUTIERREZ Pedro	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
103	QIAO Feng	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
104	VOSEKALNS Andris	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
105	ZHANG Chunlong	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
106	LIU Jiankun	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
107	BEVILACQUA Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	34:11
108	BISSEGGER Stefan	Team Switzerland	34:16
109	YAN Meng	Hengxiang Cycling	34:33
110	WU Yi Chang	RTS Racing	34:41
111	MONSALVE Ralph	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
112	CLANCY Stephen	Novo Nordisk	35:55
113	VAN RHEE Joey	Monkey Town	36:56
114	THÖMEL Tino	Bike Aid	37:47
115	BAI Li Jun	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	38:38
116	FITZPATRICK Tom	RTS Racing	40:31
117	WANG Jiancai	Qinghai Tianyoude	40:54
118	EINHORN Itamar	Israel Cycling Academy	43:13
119	SCHAFER Timo	Bike Aid	43:22
120	TURRIN Alex	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	46:59
121	JIANG Zhi Hui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	47:17
122	SCHNAPKA Matthias	Bike Aid	1:00:22

Saturday, October 27: Stage 5, Wanning - Lingshui, 178.4 km

Manuel Nelletti

Manuel Belletti gets his second stage win in this Tour of Hainan

The race: Here's the organizer's stage summary.

Stage 3 winner Manuel Belletti of Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec claimed his second stage victory near the beautiful Clearwater Bay in Lingshui. He also took over from Dylan Page in the lead of the overall classification at the end of a very tough day of racing due to the rain and the high rhythm in the successive climbs.

With four different winners in as many bunch sprint finishes, questions arose over who was the best sprinter in this year’s Tour of Hainan. Manuel Belletti gave some answer as he became the first rider to win two stages this year but it’s only part of the answer as sprinters like Jakub Mareczko, Andrea Guardini and Page couldn’t hold the speed of the first part of the peloton uphill and it was a reduced bunch at the end with less than half of the remaining contenders (58 out of 123) being part of the front group at the end.

All riders acknowledged that it was the hardest stage of the Country Garden Cup 13th Tour of Hainan up to date and there are more difficulties to come with the traditional ascent to Wuzhishan on stage 6 and the new uphill finish in Changjiang on stage 8. No breakaway took shape on stage 5 before 100km of racing despite many skirmishes. Alexis Guérin (Delko Marseille-Provence KTM), Clément Carisey (Israel Cycling Academy), Simon Pellaud (Swiss national team) and Davide Orrico (Vorarlberg-Santic) opened a gap of 1’30’’ but the Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec team reacted strongly. The quartet got caught with 40km to go and many more attacks succeeded while the gap to the dropped riders kept increasing significantly.

Orrico jumped again when two of his compatriots escaped and it was no other than defending champion Jacopo Mosca (Wilier Triestina) accompanied by Alessandro Tonelli (Bardiani-CSF). Gino Mäder (Swiss national team), Guillaume Boivin (Israel Cycling Academy) and Peter Schulting (Monkey Town) reinforced them at the front but Belletti’s team-mates remained devoted until the end.

After winning the Tour of Hungary overall in August, the Italian is again in the lead of a general classification after half way into the Country Garden Cup 13th Tour of Hainan. It might be a different story on stage 6 with a harder finale.

Quotes of the day:
Stage winner and new race leader Manuel Belletti (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec): “I only crowned the work of my team-mates in the last 200 metres. They’ve been impressive once again. By themselves, they caught the four-man breakaway and the last one towards the end. I couldn’t make any mistake after the great confidence they showed me. It’s a nice win that I dedicate to them, the second one in this Tour and it’s not over yet. It’s been a harder stage than what we expected, also because of the rain. We had planned some action in the last climb but it eventually wasn’t needed because the bunch exploded before. We were four of us at the front. We’re very happy with how it went. I came for winning at least one stage and I already have two under my belt. With different sprinters winning bunch sprints, it was hard to tell who was the best because there are so many excellent sprinters here. Today, it was a hard stage and the pure sprinters like [Andrea] Guardini and [Jakub] Mareczko didn’t make the front group. I’ve demonstrated on stage 3 that I was able to win against them, I’ve won today without them and I’ll try to win again in the next few days regardless of who is up there for sprinting. This is my first time in Hainan and it won’t be the last one because the landscapes are really beautiful. The crowd on the road is really welcoming. It’s a really nice atmosphere. I feel good here.”

Jannik Steimle (Vorarlberg-Santic), second: “This is for sure a good result for me. I’ve made the top 10 in the last four days, and today I made my best race of the whole season. We did a really good team work. I think we were the strongest team today. They gave me a good lead out. It was a hard race over 180km, up and down the whole day with a lot of wind. It was not a normal sprint but a sprint with shit legs. The strongest man won. I know Manuel Belletti from the Tour of Hungary. I found his back wheel with 3km to go. I stayed there until the finishing line and that’s how I came second.”

Green jersey holder Raymond Kreder (Ukyo), third: “It means a lot to me to take the green jersey. I went for the points in the first intermediate sprint and I won it. At the finish, I came third, which means more points. For sure I want to defend the green jersey from now on.”

Best Asian rider Amirul Marzuki (Terengganu TSG): “I didn’t expect to take the blue jersey today because it was the first stage with climbs, which was very hard for me. But I tried to follow the first group and I got the jersey. My team will help me defend the jersey tomorrow but stage 8 will be very hard for me. I’ll try my best.”

King of the Mountains Lyu Xianjing (Hengxiang): “This Tour of Hainan my first ever international road race. I’m normally a mountain biker. I’m grateful to the Hengxiang team to have given me this opportunity. I’m very satisfied with my performance in the climbs today. I didn’t expect to become the King of the Mountains in a prestigious race like the Tour of Hainan. It’s a surprise for me. I’m normally lacking skills in handling a road bike but I’m doing my best.”

Most active rider Davide Orrico (Vorarlberg-Santic): “It was the team’s goal to be part of all possible breakaways and then go for the sprint with Jannik. So we kept the race active as much as we could. We knew we were a strong and united team. We were even five of us at the front. When we made that 4-man breakaway, my little objective was to win the second category KOM and I managed to conquer it. We rode very fast on the flat but we got caught by Androni and I tried again in the finale. It went well at the end because Jannik [Steimle] conquered a beautiful podium place.”

Complete results:

178.4 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.968 km/hr

1	BELLETTI Manuel	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	4hr 9min 7sec
2	STEIMLE Jannik	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
3	KREDER Raymond	Team UKYO	s.t.
4	BOUGLAS Georgios	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
5	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
6	PACIONI Luca	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
7	CIMA Imerio	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
8	MAESTRI Mirco	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
9	SLIK Ivar	Monkey Town	s.t.
10	FEDELI Alessandro	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
11	HENDRICKS Clint	Bike Aid	s.t.
12	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
13	TOOVEY Ayden	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
14	DE JONGE Maarten	Monkey Town	s.t.
15	MAZUKI Nur Amirul	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
16	EL FARES Julien	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
17	CHAVES Brayan	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
18	GUERIN Alexis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
19	CARISEY Clément	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
20	VELASCO Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
21	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts	RTS Racing	s.t.
22	MÄDER Gino	Team Switzerland	s.t.
23	HUCKER Robbie	Team UKYO	s.t.
24	PRADES Benjamín	Team UKYO	s.t.
25	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
26	LEA Jason	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
27	SCHELLING Patrick	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
28	THALMANN Roland	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
29	CHEN Mingrun	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
30	PARRA Edwin Arnulfo	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
31	OVECHKIN Artem	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
32	SUNDERLAND Dylan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
33	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	s.t.
34	MASNADA Fausto	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
35	SANTORO Antonio	Monkey Town	s.t.
36	LYU Xianjing	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
37	LIU Jianpeng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
38	POLIVODA Oleksandr	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
39	ROTA Lorenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
40	BANZER Gordian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
41	ORRICO Davide	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
42	GOH Choon Huat	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
43	FRAPPORTI Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
44	BALLERINI Davide	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
45	ARAQUE Rodrigo	Team UKYO	s.t.
46	MONSALVE Yonathan	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
47	SCHNEITER Joab	Team Switzerland	s.t.
48	MOSCA Jacopo	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
49	MEILER Lukas	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
50	SCHULTING Peter	Monkey Town	s.t.
51	VAN ENGELEN Adne	Bike Aid	s.t.
52	ITO Masakazu	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
53	BRAND Sam	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
54	BOIVIN Guillaume	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
55	BADILATTI Matteo	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
56	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
57	YOSHIOKA Naoya	Team UKYO	s.t.
58	MARANGONI Alan	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
59	WACKERMANN Luca	Bardiani-CSF	@ 44sec
60	KOSHEVOY Ilia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	1:24
61	GUO Liang	Giant Cycling Team	6:49
62	SALEH Mohd Zamri	Terengganu Cycling	18:22
63	BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-Bayar	RTS Racing	18:25
64	LOOIJ André	Monkey Town	s.t.
65	PAGE Dylan	Team Switzerland	s.t.
66	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
67	VAN RHEE Joey	Monkey Town	s.t.
68	KLEIMAN Wim	Monkey Town	s.t.
69	WANG Jiancai	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
70	VIEL Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
71	OKAMOTO Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
72	SCHAFER Timo	Bike Aid	s.t.
73	GOLDSTEIN Roy	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
74	EINHORN Itamar	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
75	IRVINE Declan	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
76	CALABRIA Fabio	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
77	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
78	BAI Li Jun	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
79	SCHNAPKA Matthias	Bike Aid	s.t.
80	HENTTALA Joonas	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
81	BENFATTO Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
82	BATMUNKH Maral-Erdene	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
83	SHI Hang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
84	GU Bingcheng	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
85	WU Yi Chang	RTS Racing	s.t.
86	ZHANG Chunlong	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
87	LI Jin Song	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
88	CLANCY Stephen	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
89	STALLAERT Joeri	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
90	FITZPATRICK Tom	RTS Racing	s.t.
91	CARSTENSEN Lucas	Bike Aid	s.t.
92	KIPKEMBOI Salim	Bike Aid	s.t.
93	GUTIERREZ Pedro	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
94	MONSALVE Ralph	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
95	QIAO Feng	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
96	ORTEGA Mauricio	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
97	LIU Jiankun	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
98	SMUKULIS Gatis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
99	VOSEKALNS Andris	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
100	FRAPPORTI Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
101	MARECZKO Jakub	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
102	LEVEAU Jérémy	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
103	UCHIMA Kohei	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
104	HENNESSY Jacob	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
105	YOSHIDA Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
106	MEYER Robin	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
107	JIANG Zhi Hui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
108	NIU Yikui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
109	TURRIN Alex	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
110	BEVILACQUA Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
111	WILLIAMS Tyler	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
112	ZHENG Zhang	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
113	HIRAI Eiichi	Team UKYO	s.t.
114	YOKOTSUKA Kohei	Team UKYO	s.t.
115	SWEENY Harry	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
116	WANG Bo	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
117	LI Zisen	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
118	GIACOPPO Anthony	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
119	ELLIOTT Nathan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
120	WARD Tristan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
121	BISSEGGER Stefan	Team Switzerland	s.t.
122	YAN Meng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
123	THÖMEL Tino	Bike Aid	18:33

GC after Stage 5:

781.8 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.423 km/hr

1	BELLETTI Manuel	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	18hr 25min 45sec
2	KREDER Raymond	Team UKYO	@ 7sec
3	BALLERINI Davide	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	0:17
4	MAZUKI Nur Amirul	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
5	STEIMLE Jannik	Vorarlberg Santic	0:18
6	MASNADA Fausto	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	0:21
7	SCHELLING Patrick	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
8	LIU Jianpeng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
9	EL FARES Julien	Delko-Marseille Provence	0:22
10	MAESTRI Mirco	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
11	SLIK Ivar	Monkey Town	s.t.
12	SCHULTING Peter	Monkey Town	s.t.
13	BRAND Sam	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
14	MOSCA Jacopo	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	0:23
15	CIMA Imerio	Nippo-Vini Fantini	0:24
16	BOUGLAS Georgios	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
17	DE JONGE Maarten	Monkey Town	s.t.
18	BOIVIN Guillaume	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
19	FEDELI Alessandro	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
20	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts	RTS Racing	s.t.
21	VELASCO Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
22	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
23	CARISEY Clément	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
24	PACIONI Luca	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
25	PARRA Edwin Arnulfo	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
26	LYU Xianjing	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
27	MÄDER Gino	Team Switzerland	s.t.
28	HUCKER Robbie	Team UKYO	s.t.
29	PRADES Benjamín	Team UKYO	s.t.
30	CHAVES Brayan	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
31	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	s.t.
32	BANZER Gordian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
33	SANTORO Antonio	Monkey Town	s.t.
34	ORRICO Davide	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
35	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
36	SUNDERLAND Dylan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
37	LEA Jason	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
38	ROTA Lorenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
39	FRAPPORTI Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
40	CHEN Mingrun	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
41	GUERIN Alexis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
42	THALMANN Roland	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
43	OVECHKIN Artem	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
44	POLIVODA Oleksandr	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
45	ARAQUE Rodrigo	Team UKYO	s.t.
46	MONSALVE Yonathan	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
47	GOH Choon Huat	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
48	VAN ENGELEN Adne	Bike Aid	s.t.
49	MARANGONI Alan	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
50	TOOVEY Ayden	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
51	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
52	MEILER Lukas	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
53	SCHNEITER Joab	Team Switzerland	s.t.
54	ITO Masakazu	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
55	YOSHIOKA Naoya	Team UKYO	s.t.
56	BADILATTI Matteo	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
57	HENDRICKS Clint	Bike Aid	0:45
58	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	1:42
59	WACKERMANN Luca	Bardiani-CSF	5:05
60	GUO Liang	Giant Cycling Team	7:13
61	KOSHEVOY Ilia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	12:29
62	PAGE Dylan	Team Switzerland	18:33
63	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	18:39
64	CARSTENSEN Lucas	Bike Aid	s.t.
65	ZHENG Zhang	Hengxiang Cycling	18:41
66	WILLIAMS Tyler	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
67	NIU Yikui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	18:43
68	LOOIJ André	Monkey Town	18:45
69	SALEH Mohd Zamri	Terengganu Cycling	18:46
70	ELLIOTT Nathan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	18:48
71	BENFATTO Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	18:49
72	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
73	LEVEAU Jérémy	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
74	GIACOPPO Anthony	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
75	KIPKEMBOI Salim	Bike Aid	s.t.
76	EINHORN Itamar	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
77	HENNESSY Jacob	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
78	OKAMOTO Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
79	STALLAERT Joeri	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
80	WARD Tristan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
81	VIEL Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
82	IRVINE Declan	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
83	LI Zisen	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
84	BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-Bayar	RTS Racing	s.t.
85	SWEENY Harry	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
86	HENTTALA Joonas	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
87	FRAPPORTI Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
88	GUTIERREZ Pedro	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
89	BATMUNKH Maral-Erdene	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
90	QIAO Feng	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
91	VOSEKALNS Andris	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
92	HIRAI Eiichi	Team UKYO	s.t.
93	LI Jin Song	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
94	ZHANG Chunlong	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
95	MEYER Robin	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
96	LIU Jiankun	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
97	ORTEGA Mauricio	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
98	THÖMEL Tino	Bike Aid	18:57
99	BISSEGGER Stefan	Team Switzerland	19:04
100	SMUKULIS Gatis	Delko-Marseille Provence	19:17
101	YAN Meng	Hengxiang Cycling	19:19
102	WANG Bo	Hengxiang Cycling	19:20
103	MONSALVE Ralph	Qinghai Tianyoude	19:27
104	KLEIMAN Wim	Monkey Town	19:35
105	YOKOTSUKA Kohei	Team UKYO	19:44
106	CALABRIA Fabio	Novo Nordisk	19:46
107	GOLDSTEIN Roy	Israel Cycling Academy	19:50
108	WANG Jiancai	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
109	MARECZKO Jakub	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	19:53
110	GU Bingcheng	Giant Cycling Team	19:57
111	WU Yi Chang	RTS Racing	20:21
112	FITZPATRICK Tom	RTS Racing	20:30
113	SHI Hang	Giant Cycling Team	20:31
114	CLANCY Stephen	Novo Nordisk	20:41
115	VAN RHEE Joey	Monkey Town	21:43
116	YOSHIDA Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	22:00
117	UCHIMA Kohei	Nippo-Vini Fantini	22:07
118	BAI Li Jun	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	22:55
119	BEVILACQUA Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	23:36
120	SCHAFER Timo	Bike Aid	24:14
121	JIANG Zhi Hui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	32:03
122	TURRIN Alex	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	36:24
123	SCHNAPKA Matthias	Bike Aid	41:14

Friday, October 26: Stage 4, Qionghi - Wanning, 142 km

Andrea Guardini

Andrea Guardini wins stage stage four.

The race: Here's the organizer's stage summary.

Andrea Guardini (Bardiani-CSF) has won all over Asia, but never in the Tour of Hainan – until today. The Italian sprinter raised his arms in Wanning, at the end of the 142km stage four, to celebrate his success.

The powerful Italian placed ahead of Davide Ballerini (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec) and Andre Looij (Monkey Town). Dylan Page (Swiss) kept the overall leader's yellow jersey.

"After yesterday, I slept poorly thinking about the stage," Guardini said. "I thought about the final 200 metres, where I messed up. The team even worked more yesterday, so for that reason, I'm sorry about not winning. Today was payback for yesterday. I had to win today for them."

He was the fourth different winner in four days. "These stages are hard fought," Guardini added. "It's never a given who's going to win. Tomorrow, we could even see a different result."

Stage four travelled from Qionghai to Wanning. An escape went from the gun. With 60 kilometres to race, Zhang Zheng (Hengxiang), Niu Yikui (Mitchelton-BikeExchange), and Gu Bingcheng (Giant) had around three minutes.

Bardiani controlled the gap for Guardini and the eventual sprint. With 10km, it was down to about on minute. The Chinese national champion Yikui fought on but could not survive. It was a big win for Bardiani.

"It's big for us given that we have CST as a sponsor, a Chinese sponsor, who holds this race dearly," said Bardiani sports director Stefano Zanatta. "We came here to win for them, and we got that today. We want to continue in this way."

"It's the first time I'm here, been three years I've been thinking about racing in Hainan," Guardini said. "I always thought of it, and now I'm happy to be here. This island is truly a gem, to find out that China has these beautiful spaces."

Page remained in the yellow jersey, but wants to win a stage. "I had to spend a lot of energy ahead of the sprint to get my position," said the Swiss. "With Fabian we fought to get back. I spent too much, I waited too much to start my sprint and I was blocked. I don't have the power to jump again afterwards, that's it.

"Confident the win will come? Yeah, for sure, I feel already for the sprint today that I spent energy. It's going to be hard, I'm going to try hard, I'm going try my best until the last stage. If everything goes well, I'll get it. I'm going to try my best, for sure."

Complete results:

142 kilometers raced at an average speed of 42.029 km/hr

1	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	3hr 22min 43sec
2	BALLERINI Davide	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
3	LOOIJ Andre	Monkey Town	s.t.
4	CARSTENSEN Lucas	Bike Aid	s.t.
5	KREDER Raymond	Team UKYO	s.t.
6	STEIMLE Jannik	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
7	GIACOPPO Anthony	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
8	BELLETTI Manuel	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
9	PAGE Dylan	Team Switzerland	s.t.
10	CIMA Imerio	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
11	BENFATTO Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
12	BOIVIN Guillaume	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
13	FEDELI Alessandro	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
14	LEVEAU Jérémy	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
15	DE JONGE Maarten	Monkey Town	s.t.
16	BOUGLAS Georgios	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
17	SALEH Mohd Zamri	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
18	OKAMOTO Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
19	THÖMEL Tino	Bike Aid	s.t.
20	CALABRIA Fabio	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
21	HENNESSY Jacob	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
22	EINHORN Itamar	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
23	PRADES Benjamín	Team UKYO	s.t.
24	CARISEY Clément	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
25	HUCKER Robbie	Team UKYO	s.t.
26	STALLAERT Joeri	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
27	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
28	CHIN Chao Kai	RTS Racing	s.t.
29	LI Zisen	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
30	PARRA Edwin Arnulfo	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
31	IRVINE Declan	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
32	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	s.t.
33	SCHULTING Peter	Monkey Town	s.t.
34	MAESTRI Mirco	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
35	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
36	KIPKEMBOI Salim	Bike Aid	s.t.
37	SANTORO Antonio	Monkey Town	s.t.
38	VELASCO Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
39	SLIK Ivar	Monkey Town	s.t.
40	ROTA Lorenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
41	ZHENG Zhang	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
42	THALMANN Roland	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
43	KLEIMAN Wim	Monkey Town	s.t.
44	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts	RTS Racing	s.t.
45	GOLDSTEIN Roy	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
46	MAZUKI Nur Amirul	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
47	SCHELLING Patrick	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
48	BANZER Gordian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
49	ORRICO Davide	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
50	FRAPPORTI Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
51	FRAPPORTI Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
52	HENTTALA Joonas	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
53	MÄDER Gino	Team Switzerland	s.t.
54	MASNADA Fausto	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
55	SWEENY Harry	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
56	LYU Xianjing	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
57	CHEN Mingrun	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
58	MEILER Lukas	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
59	WILLIAMS Tyler	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
60	LEA Jason	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
61	MARECZKO Jakub	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
62	VAN ENGELEN Adne	Bike Aid	s.t.
63	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
64	EL FARES Julien	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
65	VIEL Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
66	ARAQUE Rodrigo	Team UKYO	s.t.
67	BEVILACQUA Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
68	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
69	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
70	SALEH Mohd Hariff	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
71	HENDRICKS Clint	Bike Aid	s.t.
72	GOH Choon Huat	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
73	ITO Masakazu	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
74	POLIVODA Oleksandr	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
75	OVECHKIN Artem	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
76	HIRAI Eiichi	Team UKYO	s.t.
77	YOSHIOKA Naoya	Team UKYO	s.t.
78	BRAND Sam	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
79	CHAVES Brayan	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
80	SUNDERLAND Dylan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
81	MOSCA Jacopo	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
82	BISSEGGER Stefan	Team Switzerland	s.t.
83	GUTIERREZ Pedro	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
84	MEYER Robin	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
85	LIU Jianpeng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
86	PACIONI Luca	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
87	SCHNEITER Joab	Team Switzerland	s.t.
88	ZHANG Chunlong	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
89	YOSHIDA Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
90	MONSALVE Yonathan	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
91	MARANGONI Alan	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
92	LI Jin Song	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
93	BADILATTI Matteo	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
94	BATMUNKH Maral-Erdene	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
95	ELLIOTT Nathan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
96	ORTEGA Mauricio	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
97	BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-Bayar	RTS Racing	s.t.
98	SMUKULIS Gatis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
99	LIU Jiankun	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
100	MONSALVE Ralph	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
101	VOSEKALNS Andris	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
102	GUERIN Alexis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
103	YAN Meng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
104	QIAO Feng	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
105	WARD Tristan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
106	WANG Jiancai	Qinghai Tianyoude	@ 31sec
107	BAI Li Jun	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	@ 0sec
s108	SCHNAPKA Matthias	Bike Aid	0:32
109	GUO Liang	Giant Cycling Team	@ 0sec
110	WANG Bo	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
111	NIU Yikui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
112	WU Yi Chang	RTS Racing	0:55
113	SHI Hang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
114	YOKOTSUKA Kohei	Team UKYO	s.t.
115	FITZPATRICK Tom	RTS Racing	s.t.
116	GU Bingcheng	Giant Cycling Team	1:10
117	WANG Ming Dong	Qinghai Tianyoude	1:29
118	SCHAFER Timo	Bike Aid	s.t.
119	CLANCY Stephen	Novo Nordisk	1:52
120	VAN RHEE Joey	Monkey Town	@ 0sec
121	TOOVEY Ayden	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
122	JONES Brenton	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
123	UCHIMA Kohei	Nippo-Vini Fantini	2:27
124	KOSHEVOY Ilia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	2:54
125	TURRIN Alex	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
126	WACKERMANN Luca	Bardiani-CSF	3:25
127	JIANG Zhi Hui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	3:52
128	FRIESECKE Gian	Vorarlberg Santic	5:08

GC after stage 4:

603.4 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.257 km/hr

1	PAGE Dylan	Team Switzerland	14hr 16min 46sec
2	BELLETTI Manuel	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	@ 2sec
3	KREDER Raymond	Team UKYO	0:06
4	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
5	CARSTENSEN Lucas	Bike Aid	s.t.
6	ZHENG Zhang	Hengxiang Cycling	0:08
7	WILLIAMS Tyler	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
8	MAZUKI Nur Amirul	Terengganu Cycling	0:09
9	BALLERINI Davide	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	0:10
10	NIU Yikui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
11	LOOIJ Andre	Monkey Town	0:12
12	MASNADA Fausto	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	0:13
13	SCHELLING Patrick	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
14	SCHULTING Peter	Monkey Town	0:14
15	SLIK Ivar	Monkey Town	s.t.
16	BRAND Sam	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
17	ELLIOTT Nathan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	0:15
18	STEIMLE Jannik	Vorarlberg Santic	0:16
19	BENFATTO Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
20	CIMA Imerio	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
21	BOIVIN Guillaume	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
22	SALEH Mohd Zamri	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
23	BOUGLAS Georgios	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
24	DE JONGE Maarten	Monkey Town	s.t.
25	THÖMEL Tino	Bike Aid	s.t.
26	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
27	GIACOPPO Anthony	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
28	LEVEAU Jérémy	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
29	FEDELI Alessandro	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
30	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts	RTS Racing	s.t.
31	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
32	VELASCO Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
33	KIPKEMBOI Salim	Bike Aid	s.t.
34	HENNESSY Jacob	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
35	WARD Tristan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
36	CARISEY Clément	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
37	LYU Xianjing	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
38	PARRA Edwin Arnulfo	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
39	HUCKER Robbie	Team UKYO	s.t.
40	MÄDER Gino	Team Switzerland	s.t.
41	PACIONI Luca	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
42	PRADES Benjamín	Team UKYO	s.t.
43	STALLAERT Joeri	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
44	LI Zisen	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
45	JONES Brenton	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
46	EINHORN Itamar	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
47	EL FARES Julien	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
48	BANZER Gordian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
49	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	s.t.
50	OKAMOTO Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
51	ORRICO Davide	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
52	SANTORO Antonio	Monkey Town	s.t.
53	CHAVES Brayan	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
54	SWEENY Harry	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
55	ROTA Lorenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
56	FRAPPORTI Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
57	IRVINE Declan	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
58	SUNDERLAND Dylan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
59	VIEL Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
60	MAESTRI Mirco	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
61	LEA Jason	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
62	FRAPPORTI Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
63	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
64	CHEN Mingrun	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
65	BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-Bayar	RTS Racing	s.t.
66	HENTTALA Joonas	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
67	THALMANN Roland	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
68	MOSCA Jacopo	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
69	GUERIN Alexis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
70	POLIVODA Oleksandr	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
71	OVECHKIN Artem	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
72	GUO Liang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
73	GUTIERREZ Pedro	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
74	MARANGONI Alan	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
75	VAN ENGELEN Adne	Bike Aid	s.t.
76	ARAQUE Rodrigo	Team UKYO	s.t.
77	MONSALVE Yonathan	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
78	GOH Choon Huat	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
79	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
80	QIAO Feng	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
81	BATMUNKH Maral-Erdene	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
82	VOSEKALNS Andris	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
83	HIRAI Eiichi	Team UKYO	s.t.
84	LIU Jianpeng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
85	MEILER Lukas	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
86	LI Jin Song	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
87	SCHNEITER Joab	Team Switzerland	s.t.
88	TOOVEY Ayden	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
89	ITO Masakazu	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
90	MEYER Robin	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
91	YOSHIOKA Naoya	Team UKYO	s.t.
92	ZHANG Chunlong	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
93	BADILATTI Matteo	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
94	LIU Jiankun	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
95	ORTEGA Mauricio	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
96	BISSEGGER Stefan	Team Switzerland	0:31
97	CHIN Chao Kai	RTS Racing	0:33
98	HENDRICKS Clint	Bike Aid	0:37
99	SMUKULIS Gatis	Delko-Marseille Provence	0:44
100	YAN Meng	Hengxiang Cycling	0:46
101	WANG Bo	Hengxiang Cycling	0:47
102	MONSALVE Ralph	Qinghai Tianyoude	0:54
103	KLEIMAN Wim	Monkey Town	1:02
104	YOKOTSUKA Kohei	Team UKYO	1:11
105	CALABRIA Fabio	Novo Nordisk	1:13
106	GOLDSTEIN Roy	Israel Cycling Academy	1:17
107	WANG Jiancai	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
108	MARECZKO Jakub	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	1:20
109	GU Bingcheng	Giant Cycling Team	1:24
110	SALEH Mohd Hariff	Terengganu Cycling	1:30
111	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	1:34
112	WU Yi Chang	RTS Racing	1:48
113	FITZPATRICK Tom	RTS Racing	1:57
114	SHI Hang	Giant Cycling Team	1:58
115	CLANCY Stephen	Novo Nordisk	2:08
116	VAN RHEE Joey	Monkey Town	3:10
117	YOSHIDA Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	3:27
118	UCHIMA Kohei	Nippo-Vini Fantini	3:34
119	WANG Ming Dong	Qinghai Tianyoude	4:07
120	WACKERMANN Luca	Bardiani-CSF	4:13
121	BAI Li Jun	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	4:22
122	BEVILACQUA Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	5:03
123	SCHAFER Timo	Bike Aid	5:41
124	FRIESECKE Gian	Vorarlberg Santic	8:29
125	KOSHEVOY Ilia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	10:57
126	JIANG Zhi Hui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	13:30
127	TURRIN Alex	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	17:51
128	SCHNAPKA Matthias	Bike Aid	22:41

Thursday, October 25: Stage 3, Chengmai - Qionghi, 231.8 km

Tour of Hainan

A big rush to the line, won by Manuel Belletti.

The race: Here's the organizer's stage summary.

Italian Manuel Belletti (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec) capped off a hot six-hour day around China's resort island to win the Tour of Hainan's third stage. Belletti sprinted ahead of Raymond Kreder (Team UKYO) and Dylan Page (Switzerland) in Qionghai after 231.8 kilometres.

"With the team we planned it out to perfection," Belletti said after taking the prizes. They were up there to guide me in. We did not take up the work to catch the escape because we wanted all of our men later for the final.

"We worked perfectly. Ballerini left me off at 250 metres, and it went well from there."

Belletti celebrated at the expense of others. Dylan Page, the race leader, has come close three days in a row without victory. He finished third today. "My confidence is good," Page explained. "The team did an amazing job over 230 kilometres. It was more complicated to control the race today due to the length.

"I had a good position for the finish, working off the other wheels. I was on Andrea Guardini's wheel at 500 metres to race, I had the power to jump again. I'm disappointed not to get it, but I'm still there, I'm the leader. I'm going to give it all to win.

"I have the yellow jersey, but it's not enough. I have to win a stage because the team has been working so hard for me."

Belletti celebrated his fourth win of the season on China's southeast island. It is his first visit, and already he is enjoying it. "It's important to win here in Hainan, it means ending your season in the best way possible," Belletti added. "It's a beautiful race, a great group of riders participating, organised well from top to bottom. Now that I have tasted victory, I'm going to try to win again, that's for sure."

Riders went on the attack early in the long stage from Chengmai. By 15km into it, five riders were free: Wang Bo (Hengxiang), Tyler Williams (Israel Cycling Academy), Kihei Uchima (Nippo-Vini Fantini), Sam Brand (Novo Nordisk) and Nur Amirull Mazuki (Terengganu).

Their gap went up to around five minute and down again. With 33km left, it was two minutes. Team Bardiani worked for Guardini to pull the escape back. Only American Tyler Williams remained, but then under 15km, he surrendered too.

"Every time you go for it you never know what is going to happen. The peloton miscalculates occasionally, and you hope the best will happen," Williams said. "If I can win, it's mostly from an escape. I figured today was a day where they could play around because it's long and maybe with a bigger break we'd have a better chance. Anyway, it was a good day out."

Williams was awarded for his aggressiveness. Nur Amirull Fakhruddin Mazuki (Terengganu) became the new best Asian rider in the blue lead jersey. And Page remains in yellow ahead of stage four tomorrow: Qionghai to Wanning, 142km.

Complete results:

231.8 kilometers raced at an average speed of 40.220 km/hr

1	BELLETTI Manuel	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	5hr 45min 48sec
2	KREDER Raymond	Team UKYO	s.t.
3	PAGE Dylan	Team Switzerland	s.t.
4	MARECZKO Jakub	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
5	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
6	BENFATTO Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
7	CIMA Imerio	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
8	LOOIJ Andre	Monkey Town	s.t.
9	STEIMLE Jannik	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
10	ZHENG Zhang	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
11	VAN RHEE Joey	Monkey Town	s.t.
12	FEDELI Alessandro	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
13	JONES Brenton	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
14	BOIVIN Guillaume	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
15	WARD Tristan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
16	BALLERINI Davide	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
17	PACIONI Luca	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
18	STALLAERT Joeri	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
19	THÖMEL Tino	Bike Aid	s.t.
20	HENNESSY Jacob	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
21	BOUGLAS Georgios	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
22	DE JONGE Maarten	Monkey Town	s.t.
23	OKAMOTO Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
24	LI Zisen	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
25	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
26	PRADES Benjamín	Team UKYO	s.t.
27	SALEH Mohd	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
28	BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-Bayar	RTS Racing	s.t.
29	VIEL Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
30	CALABRIA Fabio	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
31	SALEH Mohd Hariff	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
32	HUCKER Robbie	Team UKYO	s.t.
33	MÄDER Gino	Team Switzerland	s.t.
34	CARSTENSEN Lucas	Bike Aid	s.t.
35	LYU Xianjing	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
36	GOLDSTEIN Roy	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
37	LEVEAU Jérémy	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
38	IRVINE Declan	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
39	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
40	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts	RTS Racing	s.t.
41	CHAVES Brayan	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
42	KIPKEMBOI Salim	Bike Aid	s.t.
43	CHIN Chao Kai	RTS Racing	s.t.
44	EL FARES Julien	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
45	TOOVEY Ayden	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
46	EINHORN Itamar	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
47	VELASCO Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
48	CARISEY Clément	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
49	SMUKULIS Gatis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
50	MOSCA Jacopo	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
51	SANTORO Antonio	Monkey Town	s.t.
52	THALMANN Roland	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
53	PARRA Edwin Arnulfo	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
54	SCHELLING Patrick	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
55	LEA Jason	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
56	QIAO Feng	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
57	GIACOPPO Anthony	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
58	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	s.t.
59	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
60	OVECHKIN Artem	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
61	NIU Yikui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
62	SUNDERLAND Dylan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
63	SWEENY Harry	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
64	MASNADA Fausto	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
65	FRAPPORTI Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
66	GUO Liang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
67	BANZER Gordian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
68	SLIK Ivar	Monkey Town	s.t.
69	HENTTALA Joonas	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
70	GUERIN Alexis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
71	ORRICO Davide	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
72	MEILER Lukas	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
73	SCHNEITER Joab	Team Switzerland	s.t.
74	FRAPPORTI Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
75	MARANGONI Alan	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
76	ARAQUE Rodrigo	Team UKYO	s.t.
77	MAZUKI Nur	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
78	SCHULTING Peter	Monkey Town	s.t.
79	POLIVODA Oleksandr	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
80	ROTA Lorenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
81	KLEIMAN Wim	Monkey Town	s.t.
82	HIRAI Eiichi	Team UKYO	s.t.
83	MONSALVE Yonathan	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
84	ELLIOTT Nathan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
85	VOSEKALNS Andris	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
86	YOKOTSUKA Kohei	Team UKYO	s.t.
87	CHEN Mingrun	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
88	WILLIAMS Tyler	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
89	MEYER Robin	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
90	BEVILACQUA Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
91	BATMUNKH Maral-Erdene	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
92	GUTIERREZ Pedro	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
93	SCHNAPKA Matthias	Bike Aid	s.t.
94	GU Bingcheng	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
95	YOSHIDA Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
96	VAN ENGELEN Adne	Bike Aid	s.t.
97	LIU Jianpeng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
98	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
99	ZHANG Chunlong	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
100	GOH Choon Huat	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
101	MAESTRI Mirco	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
102	BRAND Sam	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
103	CLANCY Stephen	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
104	ITO Masakazu	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
105	HENDRICKS Clint	Bike Aid	s.t.
106	BADILATTI Matteo	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
107	ORTEGA Mauricio	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
108	LIU Jiankun	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
109	LI Jin Song	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
110	WANG Jiancai	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
111	YOSHIOKA Naoya	Team UKYO	s.t.
112	WU Yi Chang	RTS Racing	s.t.
113	FITZPATRICK Tom	RTS Racing	s.t.
114	FRIESECKE Gian	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
115	BAI Li Jun	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
116	YAN Meng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
117	MONSALVE Ralph	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
118	BISSEGGER Stefan	Team Switzerland	s.t.
119	SHI Hang	Giant Cycling Team	@ 20sec
120	WANG Ming Dong	Qinghai Tianyoude	0:24
121	WANG Bo	Hengxiang Cycling	0:32
122	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
123	WACKERMANN Luca	Bardiani-CSF	0:33
124	TURRIN Alex	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	0:41
125	SCHAFER Timo	Bike Aid	0:45
126	UCHIMA Kohei	Nippo-Vini Fantini	0:51
127	JIANG Zhi Hui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
128	KOSHEVOY Ilia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	0:56

GC after Stage 3:

461.4 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 42.327 km/hr

1	PAGE Dylan	Team Switzerland	10hr 54min 3sec
2	BELLETTI Manuel	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	@ 2sec
3	KREDER Raymond	Team UKYO	0:06
4	CARSTENSEN Lucas	Bike Aid	s.t.
5	WILLIAMS Tyler	Israel Cycling Academy	0:08
6	MAZUKI Nur Amirul	Terengganu Cycling	0:09
7	ZHENG Zhang	Hengxiang Cycling	0:13
8	MASNADA Fausto	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
9	SCHELLING Patrick	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
10	SLIK Ivar	Monkey Town	0:14
11	SCHULTING Peter	Monkey Town	s.t.
12	BRAND Sam	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
13	NIU Yikui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	0:15
14	ELLIOTT Nathan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
15	BENFATTO Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	0:16
16	CIMA Imerio	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
17	STEIMLE Jannik	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
18	BOIVIN Guillaume	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
19	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
20	BALLERINI Davide	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
21	WARD Tristan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
22	SALEH Mohd Zamri	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
23	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
24	BOUGLAS Georgios	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
25	JONES Brenton	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
26	THÖMEL Tino	Bike Aid	s.t.
27	DE JONGE Maarten	Monkey Town	s.t.
28	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts	RTS Racing	s.t.
29	PACIONI Luca	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
30	GIACOPPO Anthony	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
31	VELASCO Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
32	LEVEAU Jérémy	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
33	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
34	LYU Xianjing	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
35	KIPKEMBOI Salim	Bike Aid	s.t.
36	LOOIJ Andre	Monkey Town	s.t.
37	FEDELI Alessandro	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
38	CHAVES Brayan	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
39	MÄDER Gino	Team Switzerland	s.t.
40	EL FARES Julien	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
41	PARRA Edwin Arnulfo	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
42	HENNESSY Jacob	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
43	CARISEY Clément	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
44	BANZER Gordian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
45	SUNDERLAND Dylan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
46	ORRICO Davide	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
47	HUCKER Robbie	Team UKYO	s.t.
48	SWEENY Harry	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
49	LI Zisen	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
50	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	s.t.
51	STALLAERT Joeri	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
52	PRADES Benjamín	Team UKYO	s.t.
53	SANTORO Antonio	Monkey Town	s.t.
54	BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-Bayar	RTS Racing	s.t.
55	VIEL Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
56	EINHORN Itamar	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
57	GUERIN Alexis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
58	GUO Liang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
59	FRAPPORTI Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
60	LEA Jason	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
61	OKAMOTO Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
62	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
63	MOSCA Jacopo	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
64	ROTA Lorenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
65	CHEN Mingrun	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
66	IRVINE Declan	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
67	FRAPPORTI Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
68	MAESTRI Mirco	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
69	OVECHKIN Artem	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
70	POLIVODA Oleksandr	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
71	HENTTALA Joonas	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
72	MARANGONI Alan	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
73	GUTIERREZ Pedro	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
74	QIAO Feng	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
75	MONSALVE Yonathan	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
76	VOSEKALNS Andris	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
77	THALMANN Roland	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
78	BATMUNKH Maral-Erdene	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
79	YOKOTSUKA Kohei	Team UKYO	s.t.
80	TOOVEY Ayden	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
81	GOH Choon Huat	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
82	ARAQUE Rodrigo	Team UKYO	s.t.
83	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
84	VAN ENGELEN Adne	Bike Aid	s.t.
85	LIU Jianpeng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
86	HIRAI Eiichi	Team UKYO	s.t.
87	LI Jin Song	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
88	SCHNEITER Joab	Team Switzerland	s.t.
89	GU Bingcheng	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
90	MEILER Lukas	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
91	BADILATTI Matteo	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
92	CLANCY Stephen	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
93	MEYER Robin	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
94	ZHANG Chunlong	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
95	LIU Jiankun	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
96	YOSHIOKA Naoya	Team UKYO	s.t.
97	ITO Masakazu	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
98	ORTEGA Mauricio	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
99	BISSEGGER Stefan	Team Switzerland	0:31
100	CHIN Chao Kai	RTS Racing	0:33
101	HENDRICKS Clint	Bike Aid	0:37
102	SMUKULIS Gatis	Delko-Marseille Provence	0:44
103	WANG Jiancai	Qinghai Tianyoude	0:46
104	YAN Meng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
105	WANG Bo	Hengxiang Cycling	0:47
106	WACKERMANN Luca	Bardiani-CSF	0:48
107	WU Yi Chang	RTS Racing	0:53
108	MONSALVE Ralph	Qinghai Tianyoude	0:54
109	KLEIMAN Wim	Monkey Town	1:02
110	FITZPATRICK Tom	RTS Racing	s.t.
111	SHI Hang	Giant Cycling Team	1:03
112	UCHIMA Kohei	Nippo-Vini Fantini	1:07
113	CALABRIA Fabio	Novo Nordisk	1:13
114	GOLDSTEIN Roy	Israel Cycling Academy	1:17
115	MARECZKO Jakub	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	1:20
116	SALEH Mohd Hariff	Terengganu Cycling	1:30
117	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	1:34
118	WANG Ming Dong	Qinghai Tianyoude	2:38
119	VAN RHEE Joey	Monkey Town	3:10
120	FRIESECKE Gian	Vorarlberg Santic	3:21
121	YOSHIDA Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	3:27
122	SCHAFER Timo	Bike Aid	4:12
123	BAI Li Jun	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	4:22
124	BEVILACQUA Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	5:03
125	KOSHEVOY Ilia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	8:03
126	JIANG Zhi Hui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	9:38
127	TURRIN Alex	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	14:57
128	SCHNAPKA Matthias	Bike Aid	22:09

Wednesday, October 24: Stage 2, Danzhou - Chengmai, 139.6 km

Lucas Carstensen

A close one. Lucas Carstensen barely wins stage two

The race: Here's the organizers report.

Lucas Carstensen of Germany won stage 2 of the 13th Tour of Hainan after he opened his 2018 record book with stage 1 victory at the Tropicale Amissa-Bongo in Africa in January. His team Bike Aid is set for helping Africans to cycle. Swiss national team member Dylan Page took over from Jakub Mareczko in the lead of the overall classification after coming second in the bunch sprint finish for the second day in a row.

“It’s different and similar at the same time to compete in Africa and Asia”, Carstensen explained. “In Africa, the roads are much smaller than here. But here and there, we don’t find as many corners as in Europe. In Gabon and here in China, I managed to beat sprinters from the Pro Continental teams, that’s how I find some similarities. My team Bike Aid is a non-profit organisation from Germany that supports a lot of projects and welcomes some riders from Africa and give them opportunities to race all over the world and show their talent. That’s what our team is about and that’s why we have #Ridetohelp on our uniforms.”

Stage 2 had a very challenging start with many attacks, one of them featuring Gatis Smukulis of Delko Marseille-Provence KTM and Jannik Steimle of Vorarlberg-Santic who went clear at km 15 but were reined in two kilometres further. 12 riders were more successful after one hour of racing: Luca Pacioni (Wilier Triestina), Luca Wackermann (Bardiani CSF), Nathan Elliott (Bennelong-Swisswellness), Clément Carisey (Israel Cycling Academy), Antonio Santoro and Peter Schulting (Monkey Town), Mauricio Ortega (Ningxia-Livall), Simon Pellaud (Switzerland), Robbie Hucker (Ukyo), Patrick Schelling (Vorarlberg-Santic), Fausto Masnada (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec) and Smukulis again.

Schulting outsprinted Pacioni at the only KOM price in Chengmai at km 67 before the loop to the northern coast of Hainan. Masnada won the first intermediate sprint at km 76.7 and rode away with Pellaud at the second one at km 98.8. Wilier Triestina took the command of the peloton with two riders before Bardiani CSF’s Mirco Maestri came in help but Masnada and Pellaud kept their advantage of 1’30’’ from 30km to go to 10km to the end. The duo at the front was very efficient but they faced a headwind at the end and lost any hope of winning the stage when they were swallowed by the peloton 150 metres before the line.

Second again, Pellaud’s team-mate Page is the new race leader before the longest stage, 231.8km from Chengmai to Qionghai.

Quotes of the day:

Lucas Carstensen (Bike Aid), stage 2 winner: “It’s been a very tight sprint with four guys inside one meter. I jumped on the back wheel of a guy who sprinted a bit early and I managed to pass him in the last ten meters of the race. I had a crash earlier on but with no damage and it had no effect on my sprinting. This is the biggest victory I ever had. Being a member of a continental team, we can’t get any bigger start than in a HC race like the Tour of Hainan. It’s really great for me to win here.”

Dylan Page (Swiss national team), 2nd on stage 2 and new race leader: “We prepared for the sprint in a smarter way today than yesterday. We have a very strong team and we have wanted to show it in putting our train together in the last kilometre. We knew there was the risk of launching the sprint too early and it would come back from behind. That’s what happened. My lead out man Fabian Lienhard gave the way 250 metres before the line. One rider passed me. It’s always hard to jump on someone’s wheel that’s already busy. We had my team-mate Simon Pellaud and Fausto Masnada in sight. It was sure we’d catch them so I tried to speed up again when we overtook them. It came down to the last 50 metres. I threw my bike to the line. Several riders were on the very close. It was hard to tell who had won. I’m second but the good news is that I become the race leader. I don’t have the victory I’m looking for in Hainan yet but a yellow jersey is always beautiful. We’ll do our best with the team to retain the lead, hoping that the yellow jersey will boost the Swiss team because our goal is to win a stage or two. It would be even better to win with the yellow jersey than the green jersey I had today.”

Raymond Kreder (Ukyo), 3rd on stage 2: “In the last 100 metres, I had no power left anymore. But I’m happy with the third place. Yesterday I got caught behind the crash so I couldn’t do a proper sprint but today it went well and I’m happy to be on the podium. My team gave me a great lead out. I was following Dylan Page today. But I wasn’t strong enough to beat him. There should be other opportunities for a sprint finish. Tomorrow is another one and we’ll try again.”

King of the Mountains Peter Schulting (Monkey Town): “The sprint for the only KOM today was like going for a stage win, going up against Luca Pacioni who is a very good sprinter. Before the race, I told my team-mates I’d try to go for the polka dot jersey. I was at the front and I gave everything for it. It’s nice to have it now but I’m here for the GC so it’ll be difficult to focus on the KOM. However, I’m sure to keep it for three days now, that’s nice.”

Most active rider Fausto Masnada (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec): “I’m disappointed to have been caught so close to the finishing line (150 metres). I started the stage quietly because I’m here to race for GC. But after one hour of racing, some big groups begun to go clear. As it included other GC riders, I put myself inside a group of a dozen of riders. The cooperation wasn’t good. There were attacks and counter-attacks. After the second intermediate sprint (km 98.8), I rode away with a rider from the Swiss national team [Simon Pellaud]. We have believed to make it for the stage win, especially at 5km to go when we still had 30 to 40 seconds lead, but unfortunately, at 150 metres, they caught us… The road was wide and we faced a head wind. The peloton went faster than us. It’s good to realize that I have good legs after I missed out on Il Lombardia due to sickness.”

Complete results:

139.6 kilometers raced at an average speed of 45.069 km/hr

1	CARSTENSEN Lucas	Bike Aid	3hr 5min 51sec
2	PAGE Dylan	Team Switzerland	s.t.
3	KREDER Raymond	Team UKYO	s.t.
4	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
5	JONES Brenton	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
6	BENFATTO Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
7	STEIMLE Jannik	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
8	CIMA Imerio	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
9	BOIVIN Guillaume	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
10	STALLAERT Joeri	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
11	BELLETTI Manuel	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
12	GUERIN Alexis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
13	WARD Tristan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
14	BOUGLAS Georgios	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
15	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
16	BALLERINI Davide	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
17	EINHORN Itamar	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
18	SALEH Mohd	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
19	DE JONGE Maarten	Monkey Town	s.t.
20	GIACOPPO Anthony	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
21	ZHENG Zhang	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
22	KIPKEMBOI Salim	Bike Aid	s.t.
23	HENNESSY Jacob	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
24	YOKOTSUKA Kohei	Team UKYO	s.t.
25	IRVINE Declan	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
26	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts	RTS Racing	s.t.
27	HUCKER Robbie	Team UKYO	s.t.
28	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	s.t.
29	VELASCO Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
30	MASNADA Fausto	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
31	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
32	PARRA Edwin Arnulfo	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
33	BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-Bayar	RTS Racing	s.t.
34	GUO Liang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
35	LYU Xianjing	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
36	SWEENY Harry	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
37	BANZER Gordian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
38	LI Zisen	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
39	THÖMEL Tino	Bike Aid	s.t.
40	CHAVES Brayan	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
41	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
42	PRADES Benjamín	Team UKYO	s.t.
43	MÄDER Gino	Team Switzerland	s.t.
44	SANTORO Antonio	Monkey Town	s.t.
45	ARAQUE Rodrigo	Team UKYO	s.t.
46	EL FARES Julien	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
47	ROTA Lorenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
48	POLIVODA Oleksandr	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
49	LEVEAU Jérémy	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
50	WACKERMANN Luca	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
51	ORRICO Davide	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
52	WILLIAMS Tyler	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
53	PACIONI Luca	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
54	SCHULTING Peter	Monkey Town	s.t.
55	SUNDERLAND Dylan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
56	SLIK Ivar	Monkey Town	s.t.
57	VIEL Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
58	CHEN Mingrun	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
59	MARANGONI Alan	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
60	SCHELLING Patrick	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
61	FRAPPORTI Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
62	GOLDSTEIN Roy	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
63	LEA Jason	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
64	TOOVEY Ayden	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
65	BRAND Sam	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
66	SCHNEITER Joab	Team Switzerland	s.t.
67	MEILER Lukas	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
68	CARISEY Clément	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
69	GOH Choon Huat	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
70	MONSALVE Yonathan	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
71	MEYER Robin	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
72	HENTTALA Joonas	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
73	ORTEGA Mauricio	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
74	FRAPPORTI Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
75	OVECHKIN Artem	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
76	FEDELI Alessandro	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
77	VAN ENGELEN Adne	Bike Aid	s.t.
78	GUTIERREZ Pedro	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
79	MOSCA Jacopo	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
80	LIU Jiankun	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
81	OKAMOTO Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
82	MAZUKI Nur Amirul	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
83	ITO Masakazu	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
84	LIU Jianpeng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
85	MAESTRI Mirco	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
86	VOSEKALNS Andris	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
87	HIRAI Eiichi	Team UKYO	s.t.
88	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
89	CLANCY Stephen	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
90	BADILATTI Matteo	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
91	BATMUNKH Maral-Erdene	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
92	WANG Bo	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
93	LOOIJ Andre	Monkey Town	s.t.
94	YOSHIOKA Naoya	Team UKYO	s.t.
95	NIU Yikui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
96	ZHANG Chunlong	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
97	QIAO Feng	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
98	LI Jin Song	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
99	UCHIMA Kohei	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
100	ELLIOTT Nathan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
101	GU Bingcheng	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
102	BISSEGGER Stefan	Team Switzerland	0:15
103	CHIN Chao Kai	RTS Racing	0:17
104	HENDRICKS Clint	Bike Aid	0:21
105	SHI Hang	Giant Cycling Team	0:27
106	WANG Jiancai	Qinghai Tianyoude	0:30
107	YAN Meng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
108	SMUKULIS Gatis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
109	WU Yi Chang	RTS Racing	0:37
110	MONSALVE Ralph	Qinghai Tianyoude	0:38
111	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	0:46
112	FITZPATRICK Tom	RTS Racing	s.t.
113	KLEIMAN Wim	Monkey Town	s.t.
114	CALABRIA Fabio	Novo Nordisk	0:57
115	SALEH Mohd Hariff	Terengganu Cycling	1:14
116	MARECZKO Jakub	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
117	BEVILACQUA Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	1:46
118	THALMANN Roland	Vorarlberg Santic	0:00
119	WANG Ming Dong	Qinghai Tianyoude	1:58
120	VAN RHEE Joey	Monkey Town	2:54
121	FRIESECKE Gian	Vorarlberg Santic	3:05
122	SCHAFER Timo	Bike Aid	3:11
123	YOSHIDA Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
124	BAI Li Jun	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	4:06
125	TURRIN Alex	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	6:51
126	KOSHEVOY Ilia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
127	JIANG Zhi Hui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	8:31
128	SCHNAPKA Matthias	Bike Aid	21:53

GC after Stage 2:

229.6 kilometers raced so far at an average speed of 44.681 km/hr

1	PAGE Dylan	Team Switzerland	5hr 8min 19sec
2	CARSTENSEN Lucas	Bike Aid	@ 2sec
3	KREDER Raymond	Team UKYO	0:08
4	BELLETTI Manuel	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
5	ZHENG Zhang	Hengxiang Cycling	0:09
6	MASNADA Fausto	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
7	SCHELLING Patrick	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
8	SCHULTING Peter	Monkey Town	0:10
9	SLIK Ivar	Monkey Town	s.t.
10	WACKERMANN Luca	Bardiani-CSF	0:11
11	ELLIOTT Nathan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
12	NIU Yikui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
13	STEIMLE Jannik	Vorarlberg Santic	0:12
14	BENFATTO Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
15	CIMA Imerio	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
16	BOIVIN Guillaume	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
17	SALEH Mohd	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
18	BALLERINI Davide	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
19	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
20	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
21	GIACOPPO Anthony	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
22	WARD Tristan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
23	BOUGLAS Georgios	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
24	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts	RTS Racing	s.t.
25	VELASCO Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
26	JONES Brenton	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
27	DE JONGE Maarten	Monkey Town	s.t.
28	THÖMEL Tino	Bike Aid	s.t.
29	LEVEAU Jérémy	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
30	KIPKEMBOI Salim	Bike Aid	s.t.
31	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
32	LYU Xianjing	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
33	BANZER Gordian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
34	ORRICO Davide	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
35	PACIONI Luca	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
36	CHAVES Brayan	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
37	EL FARES Julien	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
38	SUNDERLAND Dylan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
39	PARRA Edwin	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
40	CARISEY Clément	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
41	MÄDER Gino	Team Switzerland	s.t.
42	SWEENY Harry	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
43	FRAPPORTI Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
44	FEDELI Alessandro	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
45	MAESTRI Mirco	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
46	GUERIN Alexis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
47	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	s.t.
48	ROTA Lorenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
49	CHEN Mingrun	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
50	LOOIJ Andre	Monkey Town	s.t.
51	GUO Liang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
52	SANTORO Antonio	Monkey Town	s.t.
53	MAZUKI Nur	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
54	HENNESSY Jacob	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
55	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
56	GUTIERREZ Pedro	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
57	LEA Jason	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
58	EINHORN Itamar	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
59	HUCKER Robbie	Team UKYO	s.t.
60	POLIVODA Oleksandr	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
61	FRAPPORTI Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
62	BRAND Sam	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
63	MONSALVE Yonathan	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
64	MOSCA Jacopo	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
65	VOSEKALNS Andris	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
66	BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-Bayar	RTS Racing	s.t.
67	LI Zisen	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
68	MARANGONI Alan	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
69	BATMUNKH Maral-Erdene	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
70	PRADES Benjamín	Team UKYO	s.t.
71	VIEL Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
72	GOH Choon Huat	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
73	HENTTALA Joonas	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
74	STALLAERT Joeri	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
75	OVECHKIN Artem	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
76	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
77	YOKOTSUKA Kohei	Team UKYO	s.t.
78	VAN ENGELEN Adne	Bike Aid	s.t.
79	LIU Jianpeng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
80	LI Jin Song	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
81	WILLIAMS Tyler	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
82	OKAMOTO Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
83	IRVINE Declan	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
84	QIAO Feng	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
85	ARAQUE Rodrigo	Team UKYO	s.t.
86	HIRAI Eiichi	Team UKYO	s.t.
87	THALMANN Roland	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
88	GU Bingcheng	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
89	BADILATTI Matteo	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
90	LIU Jiankun	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
91	CLANCY Stephen	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
92	YOSHIOKA Naoya	Team UKYO	s.t.
93	ZHANG Chunlong	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
94	TOOVEY Ayden	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
95	ITO Masakazu	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
96	ORTEGA Mauricio	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
97	SCHNEITER Joab	Team Switzerland	s.t.
98	MEYER Robin	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
99	WANG Bo	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
100	MEILER Lukas	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
101	UCHIMA Kohei	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
102	BISSEGGER Stefan	Team Switzerland	0:27
103	CHIN Chao Kai	RTS Racing	0:29
104	HENDRICKS Clint	Bike Aid	0:33
105	SHI Hang	Giant Cycling Team	0:39
106	SMUKULIS Gatis	Delko-Marseille Provence	0:40
107	WANG Jiancai	Qinghai Tianyoude	0:42
108	YAN Meng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
109	WU Yi Chang	RTS Racing	0:49
110	MONSALVE Ralph	Qinghai Tianyoude	0:50
111	KLEIMAN Wim	Monkey Town	0:58
112	FITZPATRICK Tom	RTS Racing	s.t.
113	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
114	CALABRIA Fabio	Novo Nordisk	1:09
115	GOLDSTEIN Roy	Israel Cycling Academy	1:13
116	MARECZKO Jakub	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	1:16
117	SALEH Mohd	Terengganu Cycling	1:26
118	WANG Ming Dong	Qinghai Tianyoude	2:10
119	VAN RHEE Joey	Monkey Town	3:06
120	FRIESECKE Gian	Vorarlberg Santic	3:17
121	YOSHIDA Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	3:23
122	SCHAFER Timo	Bike Aid	s.t.
123	BAI Li Jun	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	4:18
124	BEVILACQUA Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	4:59
125	KOSHEVOY Ilia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	7:03
126	JIANG Zhi Hui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	8:43
127	TURRIN Alex	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	14:12
128	SCHNAPKA Matthias	Bike Aid	22:05

Tuesday, October 23: Stage 1, Danzhou - Danzhou, 4 laps of 22.5 km = 90 km

Jakob Mareczko

Jakub Mareczko takes the first stage

The race: Here's the organizer's stage one report:

Italian Jakub Mareczko (Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia), winner of five stages in 2017, opened up the 2018 Tour of Hainan in Danzhou with a win.

Mareczko powered down the hot Danzhou streets and raised his arms ahead of Dylan Page (Switzerland) and Manuel Belletti (Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec), second and third for the day. With the win, he took the yellow leader's jersey that he will wear in stage two Wednesday, 139.6km to Chengmai.

"The team worked perfectly until the last kilometres," he said. "We tried to keep the escape at one minute or one and a half. We worked the final. Luca Pacioni guided me, left me on Belletti's wheel. Afterwards, it was a beautiful sprint."

The sprint came at the end of a relatively short 90 kilometres around the Island town. Sun shined on the peloton, which helped celebrated the start of the 13th edition when it departed.

An escape of six dominated the sunny roads. Liu Jianpeng & Zhang Zheng (Hegxiang), Niu Yikui (Mitchelton-BikeExchange), Ivar Slik (Monkey Town Continental Team), Li Zisen (Qinghai Tianyioude) and Joab Schneiter (Swiss) rode well together. But it began to break up around the intermediate sprint won by Zheng.

Ivar Slik (Monkey Town) and Joab Schneiter (Swiss) continued towards the line. Mareczko's and other sprinters' teams kept a close eye on their progress. Mareczko added, "My team-mates worked to maintain the escape. After the intermediate sprint, only two riders were left. On the last lap, my team pulled and I rode the wheels."

He comes to Hainan after steady race programme in China and made one of his rare sprint wins on stage one. "Second is a good start against a really strong Mareczko," Page said. "There were many good sprinters at the start line, I didn't know what was possible, but we have a good team for the sprint."

Page already visited the Hainan island in 2016 and 2017. He is tired of podiums, he now wants a win. "I should be able to win, and I hope so, but this is cycling," Page added. "And a crash in the final today, too, that's cycling, you never know, everything can happen."

Mareczko celebrated in Danzhou with the yellow leader's jersey. Some trophies were left for his rivals. Zhang Zheng (Hengxiang Cycling Team), fourth in the sprint, earned the best Asian rider blue jersey and Ivar Slik (Monkey Town Continental Team), with his fight in the escape, came away from the podium with the combativity award.

And here's the report from Wilier-Triestina:

An excellent sprint at the end of a perfect day. Jakub Mareczko restarts from where he finished just a week ago achieving a well-deserved win in the opening stage of the Tour of Hainan.

The bresciano sprinter has beaten in Danzhou his rivals Dylan Page and Manuel Belletti for his 13th win of the season, 19th for the team Wilier Triestina – Selle Italia that has spent all day in front of the peloton to protect his leader.

The six riders breakaway wasn’t a trouble for the team directed by Luca Amoriello that didn’t have any problems in the terrible last km crash, avoided by Jakub Mareczko that has chosen the wheel of Marco Benfatto before starting a powerful 200 metres sprint.

Tomorrow from Danzhou to Chengmai there is another chance for #Kuba that is gonna wear the yellow jersey of general classification leader that he added to the green one of the points classification.

Complete results:

90 kilometers raced at an average speed of 44.022 km/hr

1	MARECZKO Jakub	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	2hr 2min 40sec
2	PAGE Dylan	Team Switzerland	s.t.
3	BELLETTI Manuel	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
4	STEIMLE Jannik	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
5	CIMA Imerio	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
6	BENFATTO Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
7	LOOIJ Andre	Monkey Town	s.t.
8	KREDER Raymond	Team UKYO	s.t.
9	SALEH Mohd	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
10	LEVEAU Jérémy	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
11	MAESTRI Mirco	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
12	THÖMEL Tino	Bike Aid	s.t.
13	BOIVIN Guillaume	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
14	BALLERINI Davide	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
15	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts	RTS Racing	s.t.
16	GIACOPPO Anthony	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
17	WACKERMANN Luca	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
18	VELASCO Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
19	CARISEY Clément	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
20	FEDELI Alessandro	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
21	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
22	PACIONI Luca	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
23	ORRICO Davide	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
24	SUNDERLAND Dylan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
25	WARD Tristan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
26	VAN RHEE Joey	Monkey Town	s.t.
27	BOUGLAS Georgios	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
28	ZHENG Zhang	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
29	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
30	MAZUKI Nur Amirul	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
31	DE JONGE Maarten	Monkey Town	s.t.
32	EL FARES Julien	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
33	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
34	LYU Xianjing	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
35	FRAPPORTI Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
36	BANZER Gordian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
37	CHAVES Brayan	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
38	GUTIERREZ Pedro	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
39	SALEH Mohd Hariff	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
40	BATMUNKH Maral-Erdene	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
41	KIPKEMBOI Salim	Bike Aid	s.t.
42	CHEN Mingrun	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
43	EYOB Metkel	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
44	VOSEKALNS Andris	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
45	JONES Brenton	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
46	MÄDER Gino	Team Switzerland	s.t.
47	THALMANN Roland	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
48	PARRA Edwin	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
49	LI Jin Song	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
50	MOSCA Jacopo	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
51	FRAPPORTI Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
52	ROTA Lorenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
53	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
54	LEA Jason	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
55	SWEENY Harry	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
56	QIAO Feng	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
57	MASNADA Fausto	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
58	SCHELLING Patrick	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
59	MONSALVE Yonathan	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
60	LIU Jianpeng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
61	BRAND Sam	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
62	WANG Jiancai	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
63	SANTORO Antonio	Monkey Town	s.t.
64	HENTTALA Joonas	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
65	OVECHKIN Artem	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
66	GOH Choon Huat	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
67	VAN ENGELEN Adne	Bike Aid	s.t.
68	GUO Liang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
69	OKAMOTO Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
70	GU Bingcheng	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
71	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	s.t.
72	MARANGONI Alan	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
73	POLIVODA Oleksandr	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
74	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
75	VIEL Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
76	HIRAI Eiichi	Team UKYO	s.t.
77	KOSHEVOY Ilia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
78	SCHULTING Peter	Monkey Town	s.t.
79	SHI Hang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
80	KLEIMAN Wim	Monkey Town	s.t.
81	SLIK Ivar	Monkey Town	s.t.
82	BADILATTI Matteo	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
83	YOSHIOKA Naoya	Team UKYO	s.t.
84	SMUKULIS Gatis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
85	GUERIN Alexis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
86	MONSALVE Ralph	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
87	CLANCY Stephen	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
88	ZHANG Chunlong	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
89	LIU Haiwang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
90	PRADES Benjamín	Team UKYO	s.t.
91	HUCKER Robbie	Team UKYO	s.t.
92	HENNESSY Jacob	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
93	LI Zisen	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
94	BAI Li Jun	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
95	LIU Jiankun	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
96	WILLIAMS Tyler	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
97	YAN Meng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
98	BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-Bayar	RTS Racing	s.t.
99	GOLDSTEIN Roy	Israel Cycling Academy	@ 1min 1sec
100	ZHANG Zhishan	Qinghai Tianyoude	@ 0sec
101	EINHORN Itamar	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
102	ITO Masakazu	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
103	WANG Bo	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
104	FITZPATRICK Tom	RTS Racing	s.t.
105	ELLIOTT Nathan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
106	WU Yi Chang	RTS Racing	s.t.
107	CALABRIA Fabio	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
108	UCHIMA Kohei	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
109	WANG Ming Dong	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
110	YOSHIDA Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
111	HENDRICKS Clint	Bike Aid	s.t.
112	SCHNAPKA Matthias	Bike Aid	s.t.
113	ORTEGA Mauricio	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
114	SCHAFER Timo	Bike Aid	s.t.
115	ARAQUE Rodrigo	Team UKYO	s.t.
116	BISSEGGER Stefan	Team Switzerland	s.t.
117	MANDUO Liu	Giant Cycling Team	2:02
118	YOKOTSUKA Kohei	Team UKYO	@ 0sec
119	CHIN Chao Kai	RTS Racing	s.t.
120	MEYER Robin	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
121	TOOVEY Ayden	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
122	NISHIMURA Hiroki	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
123	BEVILACQUA Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	3:01
124	JIANG Zhi Hui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	@ 0sec
125	SCHNEITER Joab	Team Switzerland	s.t.
126	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
127	IRVINE Declan	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
128	CARSTENSEN Lucas	Bike Aid	s.t.
129	NIU Yikui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
130	STALLAERT Joeri	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
131	TURRIN Alex	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	7:09
132	MEILER Lukas	Vorarlberg Santic	@ 0sec
133	FRIESECKE Gian	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.

GC after stage 1:

1	MARECZKO Jakub	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	2hr 2min 30sec
2	PAGE Dylan	Team Switzerland	@ 4sec
3	BELLETTI Manuel	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	0:06
4	ZHENG Zhang	Hengxiang Cycling	0:07
5	SLIK Ivar	Monkey Town	0:08
6	NIU Yikui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	0:09
7	STEIMLE Jannik	Vorarlberg Santic	0:10
8	CIMA Imerio	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
9	BENFATTO Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
10	LOOIJ Andre	Monkey Town	s.t.
11	KREDER Raymond	Team UKYO	s.t.
12	SALEH Mohd Zamri	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
13	LEVEAU Jérémy	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
14	MAESTRI Mirco	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
15	THÖMEL Tino	Bike Aid	s.t.
16	BOIVIN Guillaume	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
17	BALLERINI Davide	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
18	SAINBAYAR Jambaljamts	RTS Racing	s.t.
19	GIACOPPO Anthony	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
20	WACKERMANN Luca	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
21	VELASCO Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
22	CARISEY Clément	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
23	FEDELI Alessandro	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
24	SIMION Paolo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
25	PACIONI Luca	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
26	ORRICO Davide	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
27	SUNDERLAND Dylan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
28	WARD Tristan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
29	VAN RHEE Joey	Monkey Town	s.t.
30	BOUGLAS Georgios	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
31	GUARDINI Andrea	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
32	MAZUKI Nur Amirul	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
33	DE JONGE Maarten	Monkey Town	s.t.
34	EL FARES Julien	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
35	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
36	LYU Xianjing	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
37	FRAPPORTI Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
38	BANZER Gordian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
39	CHAVES Brayan	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
40	GUTIERREZ Pedro	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
41	SALEH Mohd	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
42	BATMUNKH Maral-Erdene	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
43	KIPKEMBOI Salim	Bike Aid	s.t.
44	CHEN Mingrun	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
45	EYOB Metkel	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
46	VOSEKALNS Andris	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
47	JONES Brenton	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
48	MÄDER Gino	Team Switzerland	s.t.
49	THALMANN Roland	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
50	PARRA Edwin	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
51	LI Jin Song	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
52	MOSCA Jacopo	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
53	FRAPPORTI Marco	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
54	ROTA Lorenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
55	TONELLI Alessandro	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
56	LEA Jason	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
57	SWEENY Harry	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
58	QIAO Feng	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
59	MASNADA Fausto	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
60	SCHELLING Patrick	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
61	MONSALVE Yonathan	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
62	LIU Jianpeng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
63	BRAND Sam	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
64	WANG Jiancai	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
65	SANTORO Antonio	Monkey Town	s.t.
66	HENTTALA Joonas	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
67	OVECHKIN Artem	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
68	GOH Choon Huat	Terengganu Cycling	s.t.
69	VAN ENGELEN Adne	Bike Aid	s.t.
70	GUO Liang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
71	OKAMOTO Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
72	GU Bingcheng	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
73	PELLAUD Simon	Team Switzerland	s.t.
74	MARANGONI Alan	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
75	POLIVODA Oleksandr	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
76	LIENHARD Fabian	Team Switzerland	s.t.
77	VIEL Mattia	Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec	s.t.
78	HIRAI Eiichi	Team UKYO	s.t.
79	KOSHEVOY Ilia	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	s.t.
80	SCHULTING Peter	Monkey Town	s.t.
81	SHI Hang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
82	KLEIMAN Wim	Monkey Town	s.t.
83	BADILATTI Matteo	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
84	YOSHIOKA Naoya	Team UKYO	s.t.
85	SMUKULIS Gatis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
86	GUERIN Alexis	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
87	MONSALVE Ralph	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
88	CLANCY Stephen	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
89	ZHANG Chunlong	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
90	LIU Haiwang	Giant Cycling Team	s.t.
91	PRADES Benjamín	Team UKYO	s.t.
92	HUCKER Robbie	Team UKYO	s.t.
93	HENNESSY Jacob	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
94	LI Zisen	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
95	BAI Li Jun	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
96	LIU Jiankun	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
97	WILLIAMS Tyler	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
98	YAN Meng	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
99	BATSAIKHAN Tegsh-Bayar	RTS Racing	s.t.
100	ZHANG Zhishan	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
101	EINHORN Itamar	Israel Cycling Academy	s.t.
102	ITO Masakazu	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
103	WANG Bo	Hengxiang Cycling	s.t.
104	FITZPATRICK Tom	RTS Racing	s.t.
105	ELLIOTT Nathan	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
106	WU Yi Chang	RTS Racing	s.t.
107	CALABRIA Fabio	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
108	UCHIMA Kohei	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
109	WANG Ming Dong	Qinghai Tianyoude	s.t.
110	YOSHIDA Hayato	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
111	HENDRICKS Clint	Bike Aid	s.t.
112	SCHNAPKA Matthias	Bike Aid	s.t.
113	ORTEGA Mauricio	Ningxia Sports Lottery-Livall	s.t.
114	SCHAFER Timo	Bike Aid	s.t.
115	ARAQUE Rodrigo	Team UKYO	s.t.
116	BISSEGGER Stefan	Team Switzerland	s.t.
117	YOKOTSUKA Kohei	Team UKYO	s.t.
118	CHIN Chao Kai	RTS Racing	s.t.
119	MEYER Robin	Delko-Marseille Provence	s.t.
120	TOOVEY Ayden	Bennelong-Swiss Wellness	s.t.
121	NISHIMURA Hiroki	Nippo-Vini Fantini	s.t.
122	JIANG Zhi Hui	Mitchelton-Bike Exchange	s.t.
123	SCHNEITER Joab	Team Switzerland	s.t.
124	ALBANESE Vincenzo	Bardiani-CSF	s.t.
125	IRVINE Declan	Novo Nordisk	s.t.
126	CARSTENSEN Lucas	Bike Aid	s.t.
127	STALLAERT Joeri	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
128	MEILER Lukas	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
129	FRIESECKE Gian	Vorarlberg Santic	s.t.
130	GOLDSTEIN Roy	Israel Cycling Academy	1:11
131	MANDUO Liu	Giant Cycling Team	2:12
132	BEVILACQUA Simone	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	3:11
133	TURRIN Alex	Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia	7:19

Start list, October 22, 2018:

	WILIER TRIESTINA-SELLE ITALIA

1	MOSCA Jacopo
2	MARECZKO Jakub
3	BEVILACQUA Simone
4	KOSHEVOY Ilia
5	PACIONI Luca
6	TURRIN Alex
7	VELASCO Simone
	BARDIANI-CSF

11	ALBANESE Vincenzo
12	GUARDINI Andrea
13	MAESTRI Mirco
14	ROTA Lorenzo
15	SIMION Paolo
16	TONELLI Alessandro
17	WACKERMANN Luca
	BENNELONG-SWISS WELLNESS

21	SUNDERLAND Dylan
22	TOOVEY Ayden
23	WARD Tristan
24	GIACOPPO Anthony
25	LEA Jason
26	ELLIOTT Nathan
	BIKE AID

31	VAN ENGELEN Adne
32	CARSTENSEN Lucas
33	SCHAFER Timo
34	THÖMEL Tino
35	KIPKEMBOI Salim
36	HENDRICKS Clint
37	SCHNAPKA Matthias
	DELKO-MARSEILLE PROVENCE

41	EL FARES Julien
42	FEDELI Alessandro
43	GUERIN Alexis
44	JONES Brenton
45	LEVEAU Jérémy
46	MEYER Robin
47	SMUKULIS Gatis
	GIANT CYCLING TEAM

51	GU Bingcheng
52	SHI Hang
53	LIU Haiwang
54	LIU Manduo
55	LI Jin Song
56	LIANG Guo Hui
57	XU Zhaoliang
	HENGXIANG CYCLING

61	LIU Jianpeng
62	LYU Xianjing
63	ZHANG Zheng
64	WANG Bo
65	YAN Meng
66	VOSEKALNS Andris
67	CHEN Mingrun
	ISRAEL CYCLING ACADEMY

71	BADILATTI Matteo
72	BOIVIN Guillaume
73	CARISEY Clément
74	EINHORN Itmar
75	GOLDSTEIN Roy
76	WILLIAMS Tyler
	MITCHELTON-BIKE EXCHANGE

81	NIU Yikui
82	BIEKEN Nazaerbieke
83	CHAVES Brayan
84	SWEENY Harrison
85	HENNESSEY Jacob
86	JIANG Zhi Hui
87	LIU Jiankun
	MONKEY TOWN

91	DE JONGE Maarten
92	KLEIMAN Wim
93	LOOIJ André
94	VAN RHEE Joey
95	SANTORO Antonio
96	SCHULTING Peter
97	SLIK Ivar
	NINGXIA SPORTS LOTTERY-LIVALL

101	ORTEGA Mauricio
102	POLIVODA Oleksandr
103	ZHANG Chunlong
104	QIAO Feng
105	BAI Li Jun
106	PARRA Edwin
107	BOUGLAS Georgios
	NIPPO-VINI FANTINI

111	CIMA Damiano
112	YOSHIDA Hayato
113	MARANGONI Alan
114	OKAMOTO Hayato
115	NISHIMURA Hiroki
116	ITO Masakazu
117	UCHIMA Kohei
	NOVO NORDISK

121	CALABRIA Fabio
122	CLANCY Stephen
123	BRAND Sam
124	HENTTALA Joonas
127	IRVINE Declan
	QINGHAI TIANYOUDE

131	MONSALVE Jonathan
132	MONSALVE Ralph
133	ZHANG Zhi Shan
134	WANG Jian Cai
135	LI Zi Sen
136	WANG Ming Dong
137	GUTIERREZ Pedro
	RTS RACING

141	FITZPATRICK Tom
142	SAINBAYAR Jamnaljamts
143	BATSAIKHAN Tegshbayar
144	CHIN Chao Kai
146	WU Yi Chang
	TEAM SWITZERLAND

151	LIENHARD Fabian
152	MÄDER Gino
153	PAGE Dylan
154	SCHNEITER Joab
155	PELLAUD Simon
156	BISSEGGER Stefan
157	BANZER Gordian
	TERENGGANU CYCLING

161	SALEH Mohd Zamri
162	OVECHKIN Artem
163	SALEH Mohd Hariff
164	EYOB Metkel
165	GOH Choon Huat
166	BATMUNKH Maral-Erdene
167	MAZUKI Nur Amirul
	TEAM UKYO

171	PRADES Benjamín
172	HUCKER Robbie
173	KREDER Raymond
174	LORENTE Rodrigo
175	HIRAI Eiichi
176	YOSHIOKA Naoya
177	YOKOTSUKA Kohei
	VORARLBERG SANTIC

181	FRIESECKE Gian
182	MEILER Lukas
183	ORRICO Davide
184	SCHELLING Patrick
185	STEIMLE Jannik
186	STALLAERT Joeri
187	THALMANN Roland
	ANDRONI GIOCATTOLI-SIDERMEC

191	BALLERINI Davide
192	BELLETTI Manuel
193	BENFATTO Marco
194	FRAPPORTI Mattia
195	FRAPPORTI Marco
196	MASNADA Fausto
197	VIEL Mattia

2018 Tour of Hainan (HC), China

13th edition: October 23 - 31, 2018

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