Japan Cup 2013

Japan Cup Cycle Road Race 2013
Host country	Japan
Competition period	20th October 2013
overall length	151.3 kilometers
Starting field	84 drivers from 22 nations in 17 teams (39 of them arrived at the finish)
winner
Overall rating	1. Michael Rogers 4:25:00 h 2. Jack Bauer + 0:44 min 3. Damiano Cunego same time
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The 22nd Japan Cup (officially: Japan Cup Cycle Road Race ) took place on 20 October 2013, Japanese Utsunomiya instead. The one-day race was part of the UCI Asia Tour 2014 and was classified in the highest category 1.HC within this . The first fifteen drivers thus received points for the Asia ranking list; ProTeams drivers were not entitled to collect points.

Attendees

At the start there were seven ProTeams, for whom the race marked the end of the 2013 season, as well as a Professional Continental team , eight Continental teams and a national team. A maximum of five drivers per team were allowed to start. Well-known participating riders included Richie Porte from Sky ProCycling , defending champion Ivan Basso and Peter Sagan (both Cannondale Pro Cycling ), Michael Rogers ( Team Saxo-Tinkoff ), Damiano Cunego ( Lampre-Merida ) and Daniel Martin ( Garmin-Sharp ). With Bernhard Eisel from Sky, Matthias Krizek from Cannondale and Matthias Friedemann from the Champion System Pro Cycling Team , three German-speaking professionals also took part in the race.

ProTeams Omega Pharma-Quickstep Sky ProCycling RadioShack Leopard Cannondale Pro Cycling Team Saxo-Tinkoff Lampre-Merida Garmin-Sharp Professional Continental Teams Champion system 0

Continental teams Jelly Belly Cycling Amore e Vita Team Nippo-De Rosa Bridgestone anchor Aisan Racing Team Team Ukyo Shimano Racing Team Utsunomiya lightning National teams  Japan

Track and course of the race

In the city of Utsunomiya north of Tokyo , the Japan Cup 2013 took place on a 14.1 kilometer circuit that had to be driven ten times. Then there was a final lap of 10.3 kilometers. Each lap started with the ascent to Kogashi, where about 125 meters of altitude had to be overcome. Towards the end of each lap there was another smaller ascent with about 50 meters of altitude. A total of 151.3 kilometers had to be covered on the topographically not easy route.

On the last lap, the Australian Michael Rogers set the race decisive attack after preparatory work by his teammates Yevgeny Petrow and Rory Sutherland from Saxo-Tinkoff and celebrated his first success in 2013 as a soloist in the last race of the season. The three-man chasing group with Jack Bauer , Damiano Cunego and Julián Arredondo , who finished fourth like last year, ended up being 44 seconds behind Rogers. Taiji Nishitani , in ninth place, was the best-placed local Japanese driver.

Final score

Result

	driver	nation	team	time	Points Asia tour
1.	Michael Rogers		Team Saxo-Tinkoff	4:25:00 h	100 (0)
2.	Jack Bauer		Garmin-Sharp	+ 0:44 min	70 (0)
3.	Damiano Cunego		Lampre-Merida	same time	40 (0)
4th	Julián Arredondo		Team Nippo-De Rosa	same time	30th
5.	David López García		Sky ProCycling	+ 0:50 min	25 (0)
6th	Manuele Mori		Lampre-Merida	+ 0:58 min	20 (0)
7th	Joseph Dombrowski		Sky ProCycling	same time	15 (0)
8th.	Carlos Verona		Omega Pharma-Quickstep	same time	10 (0)
9.	Taiji Nishitani		Aisan Racing Team	+ 1:05 min	9
10.	Joshua Edmondson		Sky ProCycling	+ 1:33 min	8 (0)
11.	Elia Favilli		Lampre-Merida	+ 2:30 min	7 (0)
12.	Ben Hermans		RadioShack Leopard	+ 2:55 min	6 (0)
13.	Pieter Serry		Omega Pharma-Quickstep	+ 2:59 min	5 (0)
14th	Ivan Basso		Cannondale Pro Cycling	same time	4 (0)
15th	Steele Von Hoff		Garmin-Sharp	+ 3:58 min	3 (0)

Web links

• Official website of the race (Japanese)
• Race report on radsport-news.com
• Results and route map on live-radsport.ch
• Official results on the UCI Asia Tour website