2007 Tour de Langkawi explained

2007 Tour de Langkawi
Series:	2006–07 UCI Asia Tour
Race No:	8
Season No:	24
Date:	2–11 February 2007
Stages:	10
Distance:	1352.2
Unit:	km
First:	Anthony Charteau
First Nat:	FRA
First Color:	yellow
Second:	José Serpa
Second Nat:	COL
Third:	Walter Pedraza
Third Nat:	COL
Points:	Alberto Loddo
Points Nat:	ITA
Points Color:	green
Mountains:	Walter Pedraza
Mountains Nat:	COL
Mountains Color:	red
Previous:	2006
Next:	2008

The 2007 Tour de Langkawi was the 12th edition of the Tour de Langkawi, a cycling stage race that took place in Malaysia. It started on 2 February in Langkawi and ended on 11 February in Kuala Lumpur. This race was rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 2.HC (hors category) race on the 2006–07 UCI Asia Tour calendar.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Anthony Charteau, the French cyclist emerged as the winner of the race, followed by two Colombian cyclists; José Serpa second and Walter Pedraza third. Alberto Loddo of Italy won the points classification category and Walter Pedraza won the mountains classification category. won the team classification category.

Stages

The cyclists competed in 10 stages, covering a distance of 1,352.2 kilometres. Stage 3 and Stage 8 were mountain type stage.

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Stage result
				Winner	Second	Third
1	2 February	Langkawi	81.4km (50.6miles)
2	3 February	Kangar to Kulim	166.2km (103.3miles)
3	4 February	Kuala Kangsar to Cameron Highlands	133.2km (82.8miles)
4	5 February	Gua Musang to Kota Bharu	178.1km (110.7miles)
5	6 February	Kota Bharu to Kuala Terengganu	167km (104miles)
6	7 February	Kuala Terengganu to Chukai	141.5km (87.9miles)
7	8 February	Kuantan to Karak	174km (108miles)
8	9 February	Shah Alam to Genting Highlands	84.4km (52.4miles)
9	10 February	Putrajaya to Seremban	170.5km (105.9miles)
10	11 February	Kuala Lumpur Criterium	55.9km (34.7miles)

Classification leadership

Stage	Winner	General classification	Points classification	Mountains classification	Asian rider classification	Team classification	Asian team classification
1	Alberto Loddo	Alberto Loddo	Alberto Loddo	Koji Fukushima	Koji Fukushima
2	Maximiliano Richeze	Maximiliano Richeze	Maximiliano Richeze
3			Anthony Charteau	Yukihiro Doi
4	Alberto Loddo	Alberto Loddo	Hossein Askari
5	Alberto Loddo
6	Alberto Loddo
7	Shinichi Fukushima	Shinichi Fukushima	Nippo-Meitan Hompo
8	José Serpa	Walter Pedraza	Ghader Mizbani
9	Pavel Brutt
10	Alberto Loddo
Final		Anthony Charteau	Alberto Loddo	Walter Pedraza	Ghader Mizbani

Final standings

General classification

	Rider	Team	Time
1			32h 32' 14"
2	José Serpa		+ 01' 02"
3			+ 01' 34"
4	David George	South Africa	+ 03' 06"
5	Jai Crawford		+ 04' 05"
6	Ghader Mizbani		+ 04' 14"
7	Pavel Brutt		+ 04' 21"
8	Yukihiro Doi		+ 04' 43"
9	Luis Pasamontes		+ 04' 53"
10	Hossein Askari		+ 04' 54"

Points classification

	Rider	Team	Points
1			109
2	Maximiliano Richeze		83
3	Daryl Impey	South Africa	64
4	Nikolai Trusov		62
5	Park Sung-Baek	South Korea	59

Mountains classification

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Walter Pedraza		39
2	David George	South Africa	35
3	José Serpa		33
4	Anthony Charteau		33
5	José Rujano		26
6	Koji Fukushima	Nippo-Meitan Hompo	22
7	Ghader Mizbani		14
8	Luis Pasamontes		11
9	Jai Crawford		10
10	Yukiya Arashiro	Nippo-Meitan Hompo	10

Asian rider classification

	Rider	Team	Time
1			32h 36' 28"
2	Yukihiro Doi		+ 29"
3	Hossein Askari		+ 40"
4	Tonton Susanto		+ 06' 38"
5	Park Sung-Baek	South Korea	+ 07' 23"
6	Shinichi Fukushima		+ 09' 37"
7	Abbas Saeid Tanha		+ 09' 41"
8	Yevgeniv Yakovlev	Polygon Sweet Nice	+ 09' 49"
9	Mostafa Seyed-Rezaei		+ 10' 12"
10	Ng Yong Li		+ 11' 28"

Team classification

	Team	Time
1		97h 49' 58"
2		+ 04' 30"
3		+ 09' 25"
4		+ 09' 57"
5		+ 11' 59"
6	SouthAustralia.com	+ 15' 32"
7		+ 15' 35"
8	South Africa	+ 23' 29"
9		+ 26' 17"
10		+ 26' 45"

Asian team classification

	Team	Time
1		98h 09' 28"
2		+ 16' 26"
3	Nippo-Meitan Hompo	+ 19' 17"
4	South Korea	+ 23' 40"
5		+ 53' 15"
6	MNCF Development	+ 01h 12' 12"
7	Malaysia	+ 01h 44' 09"

Stage results

Stage 1

2 February 2007 — Langkawi, 81.4km (50.6miles)

	Rider	Team	Time
1			01h 49' 23"
2	Guillermo Bongiorno		s.t.
3	Maximiliano Richeze		s.t.
4	Brad Huff		s.t.
5	Nikolai Trusov		s.t.
6	Ahmad Haidar Anuawar		s.t.
7	Nicholas Sanderson	SouthAustralia.com	s.t.
8	William Bonnet		s.t.
9	Rupert Rheeder	South Africa	s.t.
10	Takashi Miyazawa	Nippo-Meitan Hompo	s.t.

Stage 2

3 February 2007 — Kangar to Kulim, 166.2km (103.3miles)

	Rider	Team	Time
1			03h 55' 41"
2	Daryl Impey	South Africa	s.t.
3	Alberto Loddo		s.t.
4	Park Sung-Baek	South Korea	s.t.
5	Nikolai Trusov		s.t.
6	Julian Dean		s.t.
7	Luis Pasamontes		s.t.
8	Brad Huff		s.t.
9	William Bonnet		s.t.
10	Masahiro Shinagawa		s.t.

Stage 3

4 February 2007 — Kuala Kangsar to Cameron Highlands, 133.2km (82.8miles)

	Rider	Team	Time
1			03h 40' 51"
2	Walter Pedraza		+ 03' 54"
3	Yoann Le Boulanger		+ 04' 29"
4	Thomas Voeckler		s.t.
5	Pavel Brutt		+ 04' 31"
6	Luis Pasamontes		s.t.
7	Julien Loubet		s.t.
8	Benoît Poilvet		s.t.
9	Ian McLeod		s.t.
10	Yukihiro Doi		+ 04' 36"

Stage 4

5 February 2007 — Gua Musang to Kota Bharu, 178.1km (110.7miles)

	Rider	Team	Time
1			04h 00' 58"
2	Maximiliano Richeze		s.t.
3	Daryl Impey	South Africa	s.t.
4	Brad Huff		s.t.
5	Park Sung-Baek	South Korea	s.t.
6	Masahiro Shinagawa		s.t.
7	Yukiya Arashiro	Nippo-Meitan Hompo	s.t.
8	Nicholas Sanderson	SouthAustralia.com	s.t.
9	Anuar Manan		s.t.
10	Nikolay Trusov		s.t.

Stage 5

6 February 2007 — Kota Bharu to Kuala Terengganu, 167km (104miles)

	Rider	Team	Time
1			03h 55' 07"
2	Maximiliano Richeze		s.t.
3	Nicholas Sanderson	SouthAustralia.com	s.t.
4	Julian Dean		s.t.
5	Ahmad Haidar Anuawar		s.t.
6	Park Sung-Baek	South Korea	s.t.
7	Pedro Costa		s.t.
8	Anuar Manan		s.t.
9	Daryl Impey	South Africa	s.t.
10	Nikolay Trusov		s.t.

Stage 6

7 February 2007 — Kuala Terengganu to Chukai, 141.5km (87.9miles)

	Rider	Team	Time
1			03h 00' 57"
2	Maximiliano Richeze		s.t.
3	Brad Huff		s.t.
4	Takashi Miyazawa	Nippo-Meitan Hompo	s.t.
5	Mariusz Wiesiak	Nippo-Meitan Hompo	s.t.
6	Park Sung-Baek	South Korea	s.t.
7	Rupert Rheeder	South Africa	s.t.
8	William Bonnet		s.t.
9	Pedro Costa		s.t.
10	Franck Rénier		s.t.

Stage 7

8 February 2007 — Kuantan to Karak, 174km (108miles)

	Rider	Team	Time
1	Shinichi Fukushima	Nippo-Meitan Hompo	03h 47' 42"
2	Elio Aggiano		+ 02"
3	Pierre Drancourt		+ 12"
4	Francesco Tomei		+ 40"
5	Erwin Thijs		s/t
6	Lee Won-Jae	South Korea	+ 42"
7	Loh Sea Keong		+ 01' 09"
8	Yoshiyuki Abe		+ 01' 22"
9			s.t.
10	Johannes Kachelhoffer	South Africa	s.t.

Stage 8

9 February 2007 — Shah Alam to Genting Highlands, 84.4km (52.4miles)

	Rider	Team	Time
1	José Serpa		02h 25' 49"
2			+ 01' 16"
3	José Rujano	Unibet.com	+ 01' 44"
4	David George	South Africa	+ 02' 25"
5	Jay Crawford		+ 02' 51"
6	Ghader Mizbani		+ 03' 00"
7	Yoann Le Boulanger		+ 03' 21"
8	Francesco Bellotti		+ 03' 28"
9	Yukihiro Doi		+ 03' 31"
10			+ 03' 36"

Stage 9

10 February 2007 — Putrajaya to Seremban, 170.5km (105.9miles)

	Rider	Team	Time
1	Pavel Brutt		04h 07' 08"
2	Sergey Kolesnikov		+ 03"
3	Pierre Drancourt		s.t.
4	David George	South Africa	s.t.
5	Luis Pasamontes		+ 05"
6	José Rujano		+ 10"
7	Daryl Impey	South Africa	+ 34"
8	Gene Bates	SouthAustralia.com	s/t
9	Salvatore Commesso		s/t
10	Park Sung-Baek	South Korea	s/t

Stage 10

11 February 2007 — Kuala Lumpur, 55.9km (34.7miles), Criterium

	Rider	Team	Time
1			01h 41' 55"
2	Nikolai Trusov		s.t.
3	Maximiliano Richeze		s.t.
4	Julian Dean		s.t.
5	Takashi Miyazawa	Nippo-Meitan Hompo	s.t.
6	Ahmad Haidar Anuawar		s.t.
7	Nicholas Sanderson	SouthAustralia.com–AIS	s.t.
8	Masahiro Shinagawa		s.t.
9	Luis Pasamontes		s.t.
10	Daryl Impey	South Africa	s.t.

List of teams and riders

A total of 23 teams were invited to participate in the 2007 Tour de Langkawi. Out of the 136 riders, a total of 102 riders made it to the finish in Kuala Lumpur.

• Thomas Voeckler
• Pierre Drancourt
• Yoann Le Boulanger
• Laurent Lefèvre
• Franck Rénier
• Didier Rous

• Francesco Bellotti
• László Bodrogi
• William Bonnet
• Anthony Charteau
• Julian Dean
• Benoît Poilvet

• Sandy Casar
• Timothy Gudsell
• Lilian Jégou
• Johan Lindgren
• Ian McLeod
• Fabien Patanchon

• Sylvain Calzati
• José Luis Arrieta
• Philip Deignan
• Julien Loubet
• David Navas
• Blaise Sonnery

• Alexander Khatuntsev
• Sergey Kolesnikov
• Erwin Thijs
• Luis Pasamontes
• José Rujano
• Stijn Vandenbergh

• Julio Alberto Pérez
• Guillermo Bongiorno
• Maximiliano Richeze
• Sergiy Matveyev
• Francesco Tomei
• Filippo Savini

• Nikolay Trusov
• Sergey Klimov
• Pavel Brutt
• Steffen Weigold
• Elio Aggiano
• Salvatore Commesso

• Wladimir Belli
• Alberto Loddo
• Anthony Brea
• José Serpa
• Walter Pedraza
• Fabio Duarte

• Huub Duyn
• Kilian Patour
• Brad Huff
• Michael Creed
• Timmy Duggan
• Michael Lange

• Paulo Barroso
• Jose Rodrigues
• Pedro Costa
• Micael Isidoro
• Gilberto Sampaio
• Ng Yong Li

South Africa

• Daryl Impey
• Johannes Jacobus Kachelhoffer
• Rupert Rheeder
• David George
• Nicholas White
• Tiaan Kannemeyer

• Yukihiro Doi
• Tomoya Kano
• Hidenori Nodera
• Yoshiyuki Abe
• Yoshimasa Hirose
• Masahiro Shinagawa

SouthAustralia.com

• Gene Bates
• Nicholas Sanderson
• Jonathan Clarke
• Wesley Sulzberger
• William Ford
• Shaun Higgerson

• Lai Kuan Hua
• Paul Griffin
• Ching Chon Te
• Jai Crawford
• Ghader Mizbani
• Hossein Askari

Nippo-Meitan Hompo

• Yukiya Arashiro
• Koji Fukushima
• Shinichi Fukushima
• Takashi Miyazawa
• Miyataka Shimizu
• Mariusz Wiesiak

• Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh
• Sergey Kudentsov
• Thijs Zonneveld
• Xing Yandong
• Pol Nabben
• Loh Sea Keong

Hong Kong Pro Cycling

• Wong Kam-po
• Cheung King Wai
• Lam Kai Tsun
• Tang Wang Yip
• Chan Chun Hing
• Wu Kin San

Polygon Sweet Nice

• Yevgeniv Yakovlev
• Vyacheslav Dyadichkin
• Hari Fitrianto
• Budi Santoso
• Herwin Jaya
• Artemiy Timofeev

• Amir Zargari
• Abbas Saeidi Tanha
• Moezeddin Seyed-Rezaei
• Mostafa Seyed-Rezaei
• Sirous Hashemzadeh
• Mehdi Faridi

South Korea

• Oh Se-Yong
• Chung Jeong-Seok
• Park Sung-Baek
• Lee Won-Jae
• You Ki-Hong
• Lee San-Jin

Malaysia

• Suhardi Hassan
• Mohd Rauf Nur Misbah
• Safwan Sawai
• Fallanie Ali
• Muhammad Fauzan Ahmad Lutfi
• Mohd Sayuti Mohd Zahit

• Anuar Manan
• Ahmad Haidar Anuawar
• Mohd Nur Rizuan Zainal
• Mohd Nor Umardi Rosdi
• Tonton Susanto
• Amin Saryana

MNCF Development

• Amir Rusli
• Mohd Jasmin Ruslan
• Saiful Anuar Abd. Aziz
• Mohd Faris Abd. Razak
• Mohamed Harrif Salleh
• Mohamed Zamri Salleh

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2007 Tour de Langkawi at cyclingnews.com. cyclingnews.com. 7 March 2013.
2. Web site: 2007 Tour de Langkawi — Stages. cyclingarchives.com . 7 March 2013.
3. Web site: 2007 Tour de Langkawi Results. ltdl.com.my. 7 March 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20071220162320/http://www.ltdl.com.my/tdl_archive/result/2007/2007-index.htm. 20 December 2007. dead. dmy-all.