Stefan Schumacher Leads In Tour Of China 2

Last updated : 21 September 2012 By Tour Of China

TOUR OF CHINA 2 Stage 3: Dezhou circuit race 112km 

Leonid Krasnov wins the Dezhou circuit. 

Stage 3 took the riders to the ancient transport hub of Dezhou, crisscrossed by the Yellow River, the Grand Canal, numerous terrestrial trade routes, the Beijing-Shanghai railway link and, for one day only, the third Stage of Tour of China 2. 

It was yet another circuit race, with ten laps of the city, each of them 11.2km long. The mountains competition was inactive today: three intermediate sprints counting towards the most open and exciting category of the race more than made up for it. 

The race start was frantic. Within five minutes, three riders had gained a lead long enough to name them: Valynin (RusVelo, dossard 15), Gabor Kasa (Salcano, 96), and the BMC sprinter Tyler Magner (112). 

Approaching the end of Lap One, eight riders broke across to them: Eloy Ruiz (Andalucía. 5), Filippo Fortin (Team Type One-Sanofi, 22), Xu Gang (Champion System, 32), Ivar Slik (Rabobank 2), Angelo Furlan (Christina Watches-Onfone), the ever-active Tom Vermeer (Nutrixxion-Abus, 102), Nazar Jumasekov (Astana 2, 152), Ho Burr (China-Hong Kong, 174). 

By the time race radio had named them, they had been caught, and the peloton crossed the start-finish line intact at the end of Lap One. It stayed intact for Lap Two, before another attack formed during Lap Three, which would end with the first intermediate sprint of the day. 

Marco Minnaard (Rabobank 2, 44), Marcel Termovski (66), Saafi Mat Senan (Terengganu, 134), Nazar Jumasekov (Astana 2, 152), Wang Meiyin (China Hope Star, 201) gained ten seconds and maintained that seldner lead for ten minutes, before, once again, the peloton devoured them. 

Within seconds, another attack materialised, and this time, it was the breakaway of the stage, full of quality: the Best Chinese Rider category leader Kwok Ho Ting (China-Hong Kong, 172), the Tour de Taiwan King of the Mountains Feng Chan Kai (Action, 181), the consistently aggressive Wang Meiyin (China Hope Star, 201), Tour of China 1 stage winner Tyler Magner (BMC, 112), with Andi Bajc (Salcano, 91), Jang Chan Jae (Terengganu, 136) and Ilya Davidenok (Astana 2, 155). 

By the end of Lap Three, those eight led the peloton by 1 minute 8 seconds. 

Wang Meiyin (China Hope Star, 201), the winner of yesterday’s last intermediate sprint, won today’s first one, followed by Kwok Ho Ting and Jang Chan Jae.

The breakaway built on its lead, and had a maximum lead of 1 minute 35 seconds at the end of the Lap Four. By then, however, Kwok Ho Ting and Wang Meiyin had dropped back to the peloton, leaving just five riders up front: Feng, Magner, Bajc, Jang and Davidenok.

Approaching at the end of Lap, a little over a kilometre before the second intermediate sprint, Jang attacked alone. Davidenok and Feng gave chase, and then the Astana rider offered his hand to the powerful Taiwanese, and Feng took advantage of his handsling to chase down the Korean and take the intermediate sprint, with Jang second and Davidenok. 

At the sprint point, the five leaders enjoyed a lead of 1 minute 34 seconds. Very quickly, their lead tumbled to a minute. Davidenok and Feng attacked out of the group and rapidly built a substantial lead as the peloton chased down Magner, Bajc, Jang. At Intermediate Sprint Three, their lead over the peloton was 1 minute 57 seconds, having dropped slightly from its maximum of 2 minutes 18 seconds. 

Davidenok took the third intermedioate sprint prize, with Feng on his wheel. As the peloton approached the line, race leader Stefan Schumacher, seeing his closest rival Cameron Wurf towards the front of the group, sprinted for the line and added another second to his overall lead. 

With three laps remaining, the peloton slowly began to reel in the two attackers. On lap nine, consistent chasing by BMC reduced the gap to just 21 seconds. Then, the team of the race leader, Christina Watches-Onfone, concerned that the chase down was too quick, moved to the head of the peloton and effectively blocked the group. Within five minutes, thanks to little effort on their own part, Davidenok and Feng, riding alongside each other, extended their lead to 1 minute 13 seconds. 

Then Schumacher’s team-mates relented and the chase resumed. Davidenok and Feng was eventually caught two kilometres from the line. Aldo Ilesic gave the usual, textbook lead-out to his sprinter, Alexandr Serebryakov. But today, for once, the Muscovite made a false step. As Ilesic explained after the stage, “There was a sidewind from the left. I told Alex that, when he went, he should go to my right. He went to my left.” As Cyrille Guimard used to say, ‘Le cyclisme, c’est de la voile”: cycling is like sailing – it’s all abut the wind. 

RusVelo’s Leonid Krasnov (16) acceleratd into the space Ilesic had inteneded for Serebryakov, and enjoyed twenty metres more draft that Serebryakov. It was enough to take him past his compatriot and gain him the stage win. Meanwhile, the climber/all-rounder Alexander Gottfried (Nutrixxion-Abus, 103) had an adventurous stage finish. First, as the road twisted, he received and earfull of abuse from former European cyclcross champion Angelo Furlan (Christina Watches-Onfone, 75), who complained that the Kazakh-born, Russina-speaking German had blocked him. Then, from Serebryakov’s wheel, he was able to ease past the Russian into second place behind Krasnov. 

Krasnov, a 24 year old from St Petersburg, has cycling in his blood. A graduate of the Lokomotif team in his hometown, run by the legendary Alexandr Kuznetsov (fathr of the tennis player Svetlana Kuznetsova), and then of Itera-Katyusha, he is the son of … Krasnov, Olympic Team Pursuit gold medallist at the Moscow Games in 1980.

Stage 3 Results – Tour of China II

1. KRASNOV Leonid (RVL) 2:29:28

2. GOTTFRIED Alexander (TSP)

3. SEREBRYAKOV Alexander (TT1)

4. KÖRBER Sebastian (TSP)

5. BECKINSALE Jack (AUS)

6. TLEUBAYEV Ruslan (AS2)

7. VAN DER LIJKE Nick (RB3)

8. HILL Benjamin (AUS)

9. HSIAO Shih Hsin (ACT)

10. FURLAN Angelo (CWO)

 

General classification after stage 3 – Tour of China II

1. SCHUMACHER Stefan (CWO) 8:19:53

2. WURF Cameron (CSS) 0:00:05

3. POPKOV Vitaliy (ISD) 0:00:06

4. HUIZENGA Jenning (RB3) 0:00:07

5. SEREBRYAKOV Alexander (TT1) 0:00:07

6. KERBY Jordan (AUS) 0:00:10

7. MÜLLER Dirk (TSP) 0:00:14

8. LOVELOCK-FAY Mitchell (AUS) 0:00:16

9. STEVIC Ivan (SLC) 0:00:16

10. GOOS Marc (RB3) 0:00:17

 LEADERBOARD - going into stage four, the classification leaders are:

Yellow Jersey (Individual GC): SCHUMACHER Stefan (CWO)

Blue Jersey (Points Classification): SEREBRYAKOV Alexander (TT1)

Polka Dot Jersey (KOM): CIOBAN Sergiu (TCT)

White Jersey (Best Chinese Rider Classification): KWOK Ho Ting (HKG)

Teams GC: Australia National Team (AUS)

 

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Tour of China 2, Stage 2: Jinang-Jinang

Serebryakov makes it two out of two.

Jining, the birthplace of Confucius, hosted stage two of Tour of China 2, which was also the sixth circuit race of Tour of China fortnight, every one of which had finished in a bunch sprint.

The stage started with a one-minute silence in memory of the Spanish rider Victor Cabedo, who died yesterday in a training accident. Cabedo, the winner of the hardest stage of the Vuelta a Asturias last year riding for Orbea, grew up with several of the riders on the Andalucia team, and Eloy Ruiz was especially close to him.

From the stage start, the riders headed north a couple of kilometres to the eventual finish line. From there, they embarked on six 23.9 kilometre circuits, with intermediate sprints at the end of Laps 2 and 4, and a Category Three mountain prize on a recently-constructed road bridge in the middle of Lap 3.

Despite repeated attacks, the peloton remained intact through the first intermediate sprint point, won by Anuar Manan (Champion System, dossard 33), with his Malaysian compatriot Harrif Saleh (Terengganu, 131) second and the Italian sprinter Angelo Furlan (Christina Watches-Onfone, 75) third. Those five sprint points gave Anuar the lead in the points competition.

At the mountains prize, situated on a road bridge erected only a month before the race, Andalucia’s José Luis Cano (dossard 3) fought his way to the front of the peloton, taking the points ahead of two RusVelo riders: Leonid Krasnov (16) and Ivan Kovalev (14).

A breakaway of five riders formed during the second lap, crossing the finish line with a 30 second lead over the peloton. They were:

201 Wang Meiyin (China Hope Star)

2 José Luis Roldán (Andalucia)

96 Gabor Kasa (Salcano)

102 Tom Vermeer (Nutrixxion-Abus)

194 Huang En (Max Success)

Those five built a maximum lead of 1 minute 46 seconds. At the second intermediate sprint, Meiyin led Roldan and Eskov across the line. Anuar maintained his lead in that competition..

With one 23.9km lap to go, the peloton had cut its deficit on the five leaders to 43 seconds. 10 km from the finish, the gap was down to 25 seconds. Tom Vermeer and Wang Meiyin were of the attackers to surrender. A bunch sprint had long been inevitable.

Nick Van Der Lijke (Rabobank Conti, dossard 46) got on Alexandr Serebryakov’s wheel. After the stage, Van Der Lijke said, “He’s already won a lot of stages, so I knew it was a good wheel. But, riding into a head wind, it was too hard to get past, and, in the end, he won it by a bike length.”

Angelo Furlan, third in the first intermediate sprint of the day, was third in the stage. Behind him, Anuar Manan was disappointed with fourth place, but his strategy of attacking the first intermediate sprint of the day, then recovering in time for the stage finish gave him enough points to steal the blue points jersey.

After the stage, Anuar insisted he intends to keep the jersey.

“The points jersey is my main goal, but I know I can beat Serebryakov. He has a team at his disposal, and two or three sprinters who are nearly as fast as he is. I’m working with Aaron Kemps, and we’ll try to come up with a strategy to beat him. Maybe tomorrow…”

To Serebryakov; the points jersey is merely a bonus. “If it comes, it comes, but I want stages. There are two more possible wins, and I want to make it two out of two. If there was no time trial, I’d be looking at the General Classification too. I’m not time-trial specialist, but I’ll ride it hard anyway and see what happens.”

FINAL LEADERBOARD

Individual General Classification (Yellow jersey): Stefan Schumacher (Christina Watches – Onfone)

Points Classification (Blue jersey): Anuar Manan (Champion System)

King of the Mountains Classification (Polka Dot jersey): Sergiu Cioban (Tusnad Cycling Team)

Best Great China Rider Classification (White jersey): Kwok (China Hong Kong)

Teams General Classification:

Stage 2 Results – Tour of China II

1. SEREBRYAKOV Alexander (TT1) 3:08:11

2. VAN DER LIJKE Nick (RB3)

3. FURLAN Angelo (CWO)

4. MANAN Anuar (CSS)

5. STEVIC Ivan (SLC)

6. KWOK Ho Ting (HKG)

7. VASILYEV Maksym (ISD)

8. KRASNOV Leoni (RVL)

9. ILESIC Aldo Ino (TT1)

10. KEMPS Aaron (CSS)

 

General classification after stage 2 – Tour of China II

1. SCHUMACHER Stefan (CWO) 5:50:26

2. WURF Cameron (CSS) 0:00:04

3. POPKOV Vitaliy (ISD) 0:00:05

4. HUIZENGA Jenning (RB3) 0:00:06

5. KERBY Jordan (AUS) 0:00:094

6. SEREBRYAKOV Alexander (TT1) 0:00:10

7. MÜLLER Dirk (TSP) 0:00:13

8. LOVELOCK-FAY Mitchell (AUS) 0:00:15

9. STEVIC Ivan (SLC) 0:00:15

10. GOOS Marc (RB3) 0:00:16

 

 

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STAGE 1: Huainan Circuit (121.6 km) 

Serebryakov makes it three. 

No racing yesterday as the teams drove the 475 kilometres to Huainan, ‘just’ two-and-a-half-million inhabitants but with vast new construction projects everywhere you look. 

The peloton faced eight laps of the city, each of them 15.2 hardly mountainous kilometres, so what could be described as the first molehill points were on offer on lap seven, 95.5 kilometres into the stage. 

Before then, there were two intermediate sprints, at the end of Laps Three and Five. Each brought the winner a discount of three seconds on his GC time – cycling’s incomperhensible parlance calls this a time bonus. Two and one second bonuses for the second and third riders across the intermediate sprints, and, on the finish line, ten, six and four. 

Now, soon after Sunday’s Prologue, tensions between China and Japanwhich had already led to public unrest in Huainan and the surrounding region, led the race organisers to invite the Japanese members of the race entourage – riders, team staff, but also officials and media – to leave the race for safty. For that reason Stage One started with just 116 riders 

Among the missing, Taiji Nishitani, a quick finisher and a stage winner in Tour of China 1. That meant one rival less for the dominant sprinter here and the big favourite today, the 24-year-old Muscovite Alexandr Serebyrakov of Team Type 1-Sanofi. 

The stage started fast, with repeated attempts to force a breakawayMartijn Tusveld (Rabobank Continental, number 45) and Tom Vermeer (Nutrixxion-Abus, dossard 102were among the most persistent attackers. Behind them, the yellow jersey, Stefan Schumacher (Christina Watches-Onfone)was personally active in neutralising each new move. 

As the peloton approached the start of Lap 3, five riders did manage to open and hold a small gap: Eloy Ruiz (Andalucia, dossard 5), Gabor Kasa (Salcano-Arnavutkoy, 96), Jordan Kerby (Australian National Team, 125), Cheung King Wai (China-Hong Kong, 176) and Wang Meiyin (China Hope Star, 201) gained an advantage of 23 seconds over the front of the peloton, and enjoyed nine minutes of glory ahead of the race, before the speeding bunch brought them back. 

Ruiz’s Andalucia team-mate José Luis Roldán (dossard 2) then made his own brief dash for freedom but was closed down a few hundred metres before the first intermediate sprint of the day.  

The excellent Malaysian sprinter Harrif Saleh (Terengganu, 131took five sprint points and the first three-second time bonus, ahead of his compatriot Anuar Manan (Champion System, 33), for whom Harrif once used to lead out in the sprints. Third was RusVelo’s Valery Valynin (15). 

An hour into the stage, with the first milestone of the day passed, the breakaway of the day finally formed. Xu Gang (Champion System, 32), Sergiu Cioban (Tusnad, 62), Simon Pellaud (Atlas Personal-Jakroo, 81), Marek Canecky (Salcano-Arnavutkoy, 93) and Alexandr Shushemoin (Astana Continental) first established a fifteen second lead, then slowly pulled away until, over one 15 kilometre circuit, they had grown their advantage to its maximum of 1 minute 39 seconds. 

Despite Rabobank’s presence towards the front of the peloton, there was no organised chase and the escapees maintained their minute and a half of breathing space as far as the second intermediate sprint, at the start of lap six, with 76 kilometres covered. Sergiu Cioban (Tusnad, 62) took it, with Pellaud (Atlas, 81) and Xu (Champoin System, 32) taking second and third. 

Losing impetus and cohesion, the five quickly lost thirty seconds of their lead. The prospect of the first pimple points of the race caused them to refocus their efforts, and the gap stabilised at about a minute before Alexandr Shushemoin, whose Astana 2 team has brought more or less pure climbers to a race where a false-flat looks like Alpe d’Huez, launched a hopeless solo effort to try and snaffle the King of the Mountains prize. 

He was brought to order by Sergiu Cioban, who took the mountains prize, ahead of Canecky (Salcano, 93) and Pellaud. 

Given their 60-second lead, and perhaps sensing an opportunity, the five began to work together in earnest. Behind them, Team Type 1-Sanofi’s hard men Daniele Callegarin (dossard 21), Joe Eldridge (23) and Kiel Reijnen (24) worked hard to bring them back. With 10 kilometres to ride, the gap was down to 26 seconds when the evergreen Wong Kam Po (China-Hong Kongrace number 171, age now: 39) flashed out of the peloton.  

But Team Type 1-Sanofi and Serebryakov were not to be denied. Wong was quickly caught and, with 3 kilometres remaining, the advantage of the five break-away riders was down to seven seconds. 

After sweeping up the attackersAldo Ino Ilesic, the lead-out man who became a stage winner in Tour of China 1 after Serebryakov messed up the final corner, guided his sprinter towards the finish-line before the Russian came off his wheel and powered to his first stage victory of Tour of China 2, to add to the two he won last week. Astana 2’s Ruslan Tleubayev (dossard 153) and Champion System’s Anuar Manan (32) followed him home. 

Serebryakov, a former winner of the Piccolo Giro di Lombardia, has added muscle and power since the four amateur years he spent riding in Tuscany, to become a pure sprinter rather than a fast-finishing all-rounder. Out of contract next season, he expressed his gratitude to his team-mates and sponsors. 

“I signed a two-year contract when I turned professional at the start of last season. I love this team, and I’m very happy here, but the team is changing focus and sponsor next year so I’m looking for a contract.” 

Serebryakov’s serial successes here will do him no harm at all. 

Stage 1 Results – Tour of China II 

1SEREBRYAKOV Alexander (TT1) 2:34:39 

2TLEUBAYEV Ruslan (AS2) 

3MANAN Anuar (CSS) 

4MARTYNENKO Oleksandr (ISD) 

5SALEH Mohd Harrif (TSG) 

6KÖRBER Sebastian (TSP) 

7VAN DER LIJKE Nick (RB3) 

8KRASNOV Leonid (RVL) 

9FURLAN Angelo (CWO) 

10STEVIC Ivan (SLC) 

 

General classification after stage 1 - – Tour of China II 

1SCHUMACHER Stefan (CWO) 2:42:15 

2WURF Cameron (CSS) 0:00:04 

3POPKOV Vitaliy (ISD) 0:00:05 

4HUIZENGA Jenning (RB3) 0:00:06 

5KERBY Jordan (AUS) 0:00:09 

6MÜLLER Dirk (TSP) 0:00:13 

7LOVELOCK-FAY Mitchell (AUS) 0:00:15 

8STEVIC Ivan (SLC) 0:00:15 

9GOOS Marc (RB3) 0:00:16 

10VALYNIN Valery (RVL) 0:00:17 

 

 

 

 

 

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TOUR OF CHINA 2: PROLOGUE (6.2 km, Wuhan Jiangxia, Sunday 16 September 2012)

Schumacher wins Tour of China 2 Prologue 

Tour of China One finished last Thursday after the six-stages, with victory going to the Danish rider Martin Pederson. His Christina Watches–Onfone team-mates Stefan Schumacher, Michael Rasmussen and Daniel Foder took 2nd, 3rd and 4th place overall, in a race largely decided by the opening Team Time Trial. 

Tour of China Two is likely to be settled by two Individual Time Trials covering nearly 25 kilometres. The other four stages are circuit races that should favour the fast finishers - unless a group of chancers can break away and stay away. 

So: the second Tour of China in less than a month started at 11am on Sunday 16 September with a 6.2km prologue out and back along a smooth, flat, largely featureless stretch of road beside the charming Liang-zi Lake, close to sprawling Wuhan, Central China’s largest city with a population of 10 million. 

The final rider scheduled to start the Prologue was the hot favourite, Stefan Schumacher. He spoke about the route before the race started. 

“When I set out to ride the course this morning, there was a head wind over the outward stretch, but by the time the Prologue started it had turned into a sidewind coming off the lake. The homeward stretch has the slightest of uphill gradients, and the wind may be slightly harder on the way back. But it’s not a technical course and it’s just a matter of digging very deep.” 

The eighth ride to start, Nicholas Dougall of the Australian National Team (wearing race number 122) set the first credibly fast time. Dougall rode 8.01.306. Just five

minutes later, Rabobank’s GC hope Marc Goos, the winner of the Vuelta a León last year ahead of second-placed Jonathan Tiernan-Locke, one of this season’s revelations, relegated Dougall to second place by setting the first time under 8 minutes: for forty minutes, Goos’s time of 7.52.239 looked impregnable.

 

Former Trek-Livestrong rider Joseph Lewis, now riding for BMC-Hincapie Sportswear (dossard 116), moved into second place with a time exactly 7.500 seconds slower, before a cluster of riders in close succession – Angeo Furlan (Christina Watches-OnFone, 75), Tom Vermeer (Nutrixxion-Abus, 102) and Nikita Eskov (RusVelo, 13) – set times of 8.02 plus a few fractions of a second. 

However, a series of sub-8 minute times – the first of them by Daniel Foder (Christina Watches-OnFone, 72 - 7.55.593), followed closely by Kiel Reijnen (Team Type 1-Sanofi, 24 - 7.55.565), Benjamin Hill (Australian National Team, 124 - 7.57.180) and Jordi Simón (Andalucía, 6 - 7.56.764) - suddenly made Marc Goos’s mark look attainable. 

Salcano-Arnavutkoy’s Serbian rider Ivan Stevic (dossard 95) was the first to surpass it when he achieved 7.51.701. But Stevic’s lead lasted just three and a half minutes before the former World Junior Team Pursuit gold medallist Mitchell Lovelock-Fay

(Australian National Team, 126; the winner of the Tour of Thailand in April) crossed the finish line in a time 6 hundredths of a second faster than Stevic’s. 

RusVelo’s Valery Valynin, Russian national Under-23 champion back in 2007 (wearing dossard 15 here) rode a commendable 7.53.706 before yet another excellent Australian National Team member set the new fastest time. Jordan Kerby (dossard 125), Lovelock-Fay’s gold-medal winning pursuit team-mate at the 2010 Junior World Track Championships, where he also won the points race to boot, rode the course in 7.45.357. With just twelve riders more to finish, the 20-year-old Kerby looked a likely podium contender. 

However, as the final handful of riders closed in on the finish line, the inevitable took place: first, the pursuit veteran Vitaliy Popkov (ISD-Lampre, 51), Ukranian national road and time trial champion in 2010, took three-and-a-half seconds off Jordan Kerby’s time. Then the former Olympic oarsman Cameron Wurf (Champion System, 35) improved on Popkov’s time and completed the test just 4 hundredths of a second outside 7 minutes 40 seconds (on the finish line, apprised of Popkov’s excellent performance, Wurf commented, “ I wondered why I wasn’t catching him!”). 

With only Stefan Schumacher left on the course, the fancied Jenning Huizenga (Rabobank 2) – Individual Pursuit silver medallist back in the 2008 World Track Championships behind Bradley Wiggins - tucked briefly into third place with a time of 7.42.217. 

Then, as is the nature of these things, Wurf’s time was smashed by the final starter. His face rapt in concentration, Schumacher rode the course a full 3.3 seconds quicker than his rival, stopping the clock at 7.36.696 – easily the best time of the day. 

Wurf remained satisfied with his performance. He said, “It was a good, even course and the strongest rider won. The distance was good: 1 or 2-kilometre Prologues are a lottery, but a 6-kilometre, 7-minute time trial is a good test. The winning time in a rowing race is normally 6 or 7 minutes, so for me it was the perfect combination of speed, endurance and aerobic effort.” 

The Australian also made a prediction. “In Saturday’s 18.2-kilometre time trial,” he said, “the same riders will be contending for the win.” Just one day into Tour of China 2, then, things look bright for Stefan Schumacher.

“It’s always nice to win and it’s not easy to be the favourite. You just have to give 100% and that’s what I did. When I was training I thought that the way out was faster because there was a little bit of tailwind, but the way back was really tough. We are very motivated. We had a lot of fun last week because the team time trial favoured us. Now it’s up to me with the two time trials in the second Tour of China. I’m very motivated and confident.”

Schumacher’s winning margin of 3.343 seconds is rounded down to a three second lead over Cameron Wurf in the General classification. Vitaliy Popkov and Jenning Huizinga are third and fourth, both of them five seconds back, with the fifth and sixth-placed riders, Jordan Kirby and Dirk Müller, 8 and 12 seconds down.

 

Prologue result

1 74 GER19810721 SCHUMACHER Stefan CWO 7:36.696 --

2 35 AUS19830803 WURF Cameron CSS 7:40.039 +3

3 51 UKR19830616 POPKOV Vitaliy ISD 7:41.810 +5

4 41 NED19840329 HUIZENGA Jenning RB3 7:42.217 +5

5 125 AUS19920815 KERBY Jordan AUS 7:45.357 +8

6 101 GER19730804 MÜLLER Dirk TSP 7:49.132 +12

7 126 AUS19920112 LOVELOCK-FAY Mitchell AUS 7:51.640 +14

8 95 SRB19800312 STEVIC Ivan SLC 7:51.701 +15

9 43 NED19901130 GOOS Marc RB3 7:52.239 +15

10 15 RUS19861210 VALYNIN Valery RVL 7:53.706 +17

 

Stage result

1 74GER19810721 SCHUMACHER Stefan CWO 7:36 -- --

2 35AUS19830803 WURF Cameron CSS 7:40 +4 --

3 51UKR19830616 POPKOV Vitaliy ISD 7:41 +5 --

4 41NED19840329 HUIZENGA Jenning RB3 7:42 +6 --

5 125AUS19920815 KERBY Jordan AUS 7:45 +9 --

6 101GER19730804 MÜLLER Dirk TSP 7:49 +13 --

7 126AUS19920112 LOVELOCK-FAY Mitchell AUS 7:51 +15 --

8 95SRB19800312 STEVIC Ivan SLC -- -- --

9 43NED19901130 GOOS Marc RB3 7:52 +16 --

10 15RUS19861210 VALYNIN Valery RVL 7:53 +17 --

 

LEADERBOARD

Individual General Classification (Yellow jersey): Stefan Schumacher (Christina Watches – Onfone)

Points Classification (Blue jersey): Cameron Wurf (Champion System)

King of the Mountains Classification (Polka Dot jersey): -

Best Great China Rider Classification (White jersey): Kwok Ho Ting (China Hong Kong)

Teams General Classification: Australian National Team (AUS)

 

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