16th Tour of Langkawi UCI-HC (23/01-01/02)

[jens_attacks]

sella will own this.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

don't know who won but nino was 2nd and new leader

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

1 monsalve
2 nino

incredible for south america again!!

 

[DAOTEC]

result stage 5

1. Yonathan Monsalve - Venezuela (Androni Giocattoli Serramenti Diquigiovanni-Bianchi)
2. Libardo Niño (LeTua-EBSA)
3. Mirsamad Pourseyedi (Azad University)
4. Dennis Van Niekerk (MTN Qhubeka)
5. Rahim Emami (Azad University)
6. Emanuele Sella (Androni Giocattoli Serramenti Diquigiovanni-Bianchi)
7. Lachlan Morton (Chipotle Development Team)
8. Domenico Pozzovivo (Colnago CSF-INOX Pro)
9. Ghader Mizbani (Tabriz Petrochemical)
10. Hyosuk Gong (Séleccion Korea)

General:
1. Libardo Niño - Colombia (LeTua - EBSA) (New Líder)

 

[jens_attacks]

wow monsalve but a bigger wow seeing libardo nino to the top,he's like 50 years old )

 

[hrotha]

Aaaarggh, Androni, Androni everywhere.

 

[DAOTEC]

GC complete Top 20 > jens

wow monsalve but a bigger wow seeing libardo nino to the top,he's like 50 years old )

General Classification:
1. Libardo Niño Corredor Colombia (Le Tua - EBSA) 15h59m46s
2. Jonnathan Monsalve (Androni Giocattoli Serramenti Diquigiovanni-Bianchi) á 2s
3. Emanuela Sella (Androni Giocattoli Serramenti Diquigiovanni-Bianchi) á 19s
^
4. Dennis Van Niekerk (MTN Qhubeka) á 22s
5. Rahim Emami (Azad University) á22s
6. Lachlan Morton (Chipotle Development) á27s
7. Domenico Pozzovivo (Colnago CSF INOX) á 44s
8. Ghadar Mizbani (Tabriz Petrochemical) á 50s
9. Hyosuk Gong (Korea National) á 52s
10. Hossein Askari (Tabriz Petrochemical) á 53s
11. Pierre Rolland (Europcar) á 1:23
12. José Mendes (CCC Polsat Polkowice) á 1:44
13. Amir Zargari (Azad University) á 1:54
14. Alex Howes (Chipotle Development) á 1:58
15. Kirk Carlsen (Chipotle Development) á 2:21
16. Markus Eibegger (Tabriz Petrochemical) á 2:35
17. Alex Coutts (Giant Kenda Pro) á 2:37
18. Mirsamed Pourseyedi (Azad University) á 2:55
19. Perrig Quemeneur (EuropCar) á 3:28
20. Gu Jang Kyung (Korea National) á 3:30

Top 3 Rocks for you jens

 

[roundabout]

minimal gaps it seems

 

[hrotha]

How bizarre is it to see Libardo Niño and Lachlan Morton duking it out in the same race?

 

[theyoungest]

How bizarre is it to see Libardo Niño and Lachlan Morton duking it out in the same race?

A little research shows that in the year Morton was born, Niño got 76th in the Barcelona Olympics road race.

 

[Ryo Hazuki]

A little research shows that in the year Morton was born, Niño got 76th in the Barcelona Olympics road race.

lol, only in cycling _O_

 

[Jamsque]

KRvH DEAD LAST on the stage.

 

[Escarabajo]

I asked myself a few years back when Niño won La Vuelta a Colombia why he never raced in the Pro-Tour in Europe. He's been around for a while. Maybe is Clininc stuff. He has been critical of guys like Buenahora and Casteblanco in the past.

Maybe somebody knows.

 

[theyoungest]

KRvH DEAD LAST on the stage.

He had been in the breakaway, though. But yeah, the guy truly is a dramatically bad climber.

 

[Dekker_Tifosi]

Oh well, he still survived the major lot of mountain stages in the Tour.
Longer than most bad-climbing sprinters anyway. But yeah, he'll never ace up the Alpe d'Huez

 

[jaylew]

Aaaarggh, Androni, Androni everywhere.

No surprise. I don't know what it is, (probably as simple as the races they target) but Savio's team always seems to be on fire in the first part of the year. I double checked and in the last 5 years they've got 64 wins in January, February, and March (not including their 4 from 2011) and that's more than half their total wins for that period.

 

[sktooo]

Andrea Guardini win stage 6 of Tour de Langkawi, his 3rd win in the race..

 

[Escarabajo]

No surprise. I don't know what it is, (probably as simple as the races they target) but Savio's team always seems to be on fire in the first part of the year. I double checked and in the last 5 years they've got 64 wins in January, February, and March (not including their 4 from 2011) and that's more than half their total wins for that period.

I can help you with that:

1- Europeans don't peak until later in the year.
2- Depends on the contenders, but again related to number 1.


Sometimes I get tired of seeing my Colombian riders beat everyone at the beginning of the year, and even when they get close to the Giro, but when the Giro comes, a big bunch of riders start to climb better than them. Go figure. Time after time I get excited about it and then I get deflated when the big races come.

 

[will10]

What makes you think Van Hummel was doing anything but saving energy and getting to the top?

It's as Cav says in his book - in his first Tour he was in the last group becuase he was the worst climber, in his 2nd Tour, it was because he could be in the 2nd to last group, but if you can be in the last group and get inside the time limit, you save more energy

 

[DAOTEC]

Stage 6 +GC > Top 10 complete

1. Andrea Guardini (Farnese Vini-Neri Sotttoli) 2h:14m:59s
2. Anur Manan (Terengganu Pro-Asia) mt.
3. Takashi Miyazawa (Farnese Vini-Neri Sotttoli) mt.
4. Mohammed Harrif Salleh (Terengganu Pro-Asia) mt.
5. Chan Jae Jang (Séleccion Korea) mt.
6. André Schulze (CCC Polsat Polkowice) mt.
7. Robert Forster (United Healthcare) mt.
8. Taiji Nish1tani (Aisan Racing) mt.
9. Alireza Haghi (Azad University) mt.
10. Zainal Mohd Nur Rizuan (Séleccion Malaysia) mt.

General Classification:

1. Libardo Niño Corredor Colombia (Le Tua - EBSA) 18h14m45s
2. Jonnathan Monsalve (Androni Giocattoli Serramenti Diquigiovanni-Bianchi) á 2s
3. Emanuela Sella (Androni Giocattoli Serramenti Diquigiovanni-Bianchi) á 19s
^
4. Dennis Van Niekerk (MTN Qhubeka) á 22s
5. Rahim Emami (Azad University) á 22s
6. Lachlan Morton (Chipotle Development) á 27s
7. Domenico Pozzovivo (Colnago CSF INOX) á 44s
8. Ghadar Mizbani (Tabriz Petrochemical) á 50s
9. Hosssein Askari (Tabriz Petrochemical) á 52s
10. Hyosuk Gong (Korea National) á 52s
11. Pierre Rolland (Europcar) á 1:23
12. José Mendes (CCC Polsat Polkowice) á 1:44
13. Amir Zargari (Azad University) á 1:54
14. Alex Howes (Chipotle Development) á 1:58
15. Kirk Carlsen (Chipotle Development) á 2:21
16. Markus Eibegger (Tabriz Petrochemical) á 2:35
17. Alex Coutts (Giant Kenda Pro) á 2:37
18. Mirsamed Pourseyedi (Azad University) á 2:55
19. Perrig Quemeneur (EuropCar) á 3:28
20. Gu Jang Kyung (Korea National) á 3:30

Top 3 Rocks for you jens

Some race footage from yesteray mountain stage >

 

[DAOTEC]

Result Stage 7 + GC

1. Andrea Guardini (Farnese Vini-Neri Sotttoli) 3h:24m:57s
2. Robert Forster (United Healthcare) mt.
3. Dene Rogers (Giant Kenda PC) mt.
4. Boris Shpilevsky (Tabriz Petrochemical) mt.
5. Marcel Kittel (Skil Shimano) mt.
6. Takashi Miyazawa (Farnese Vini-Neri Sotttoli) mt.
7. André Schulze (CCC Polsat Polkowice) mt.
8. Elia Favilli (Farnese Vini-Neri Sotttoli) mt.
9. Joeri Stallaert (Landbouwkrediet) mt.
10.Chan Jae Jang (Séleccion Korea) mt.

General Classification:

1. Libardo Niño Corredor Colombia (Le Tua - EBSA) 21h39m42s
2. Jonnathan Monsalve (Androni Giocattoli Serramenti Diquigiovanni-Bianchi) á 2s
3. Emanuela Sella (Androni Giocattoli Serramenti Diquigiovanni-Bianchi) á 19s
^
4. Dennis Van Niekerk (MTN Qhubeka) á 22s
5. Rahim Emami (Azad University) á 22s
6. Lachlan Morton (Chipotle Development) á 27s
7. Domenico Pozzovivo (Colnago CSF INOX) á 44s
8. Ghadar Mizbani (Tabriz Petrochemical) á 50s
9. Hosssein Askari (Tabriz Petrochemical) á 52s
10. Hyosuk Gong (Korea National) á 52s
11. Pierre Rolland (Europcar) á 1:23
12. José Mendes (CCC Polsat Polkowice) á 1:44
13. Amir Zargari (Azad University) á 1:54
14. Alex Howes (Chipotle Development) á 1:58
15. Kirk Carlsen (Chipotle Development) á 2:21
16. Markus Eibegger (Tabriz Petrochemical) á 2:35
17. Alex Coutts (Giant Kenda Pro) á 2:37
18. Mirsamed Pourseyedi (Azad University) á 2:55
19. Perrig Quemeneur (EuropCar) á 3:28
20. Gu Jang Kyung (Korea National) á 3:30

Top 3 Rocks for you jens

Some raw stage footage >

 

[craig1985]

If Guardini keeps this up, he will be riding for a bigger team next year.

 

[ISDfan]

If Guardini keeps this up, he will be riding for a bigger team next year.

I hope it will be Lampre-ISD .

 

[DAOTEC]

If Guardini keeps this up ....

Guardini had this to say after stage 3 yesterday: "We have a bet, if we can get to five victories, [team director] Stefano Giuliano will stop smoking. Since there aren't other difficult stages, we are putting our attention into arriving at this goal"

one to go !

 

[sktooo]

1 more victory to equal all-time ltdl record of 5 win, currently by Graeme Brown and Alberto Loddo.