Tour de Langkawi 2011
| Le Tour de Langkawi 2011 | |
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| Host country |
 Malaysia
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| Competition period | January 23rd to February 1st |
| Stages | 10 |
| overall length | 1315.4 km |
| Starting field | 161 drivers in 23 teams (117 of them arrived at the finish) |
| winner | |
| Overall rating | 1. Jonathan Monsalve 30:08:57 h 2. Libardo Niño + 00:05 min 3. Emanuele Sella + 00:24 min  
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| Team evaluation |
 Tabriz Petrochemical Team 90:30:59 h
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| Scoring jerseys | |
 total
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Jonathan Monsalve
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 mountain
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Jonathan Monsalve
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 Points
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Andrea Guardini
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 Best Asian
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Rahim Ememi
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 Best Asian team
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Azad University
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| ← Tour de Langkawi 2010 | Tour de Langkawi 2012 → |
The 16th Tour de Langkawi was a cycling stage race that took place from January 23 to February 1, 2011. The tour was held in ten stages over a total distance of 1315.4 kilometers. The race was part of the UCI Asia Tour 2011 and classified there in the 2nd HC category.
Attendees
A total of 23 teams were at the start, including eight Professional Continental Teams ( Landbouwkrediet from Belgium , Androni Giocattoli-Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni , Colnago-CSF Inox and Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli from Italy , Team Europcar from France , CCC Polsat-Polkowice from Poland , Skil -Shimano from the Netherlands and UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling from the USA ). In addition, twelve UCI Continental teams , most of them from Asia, and three national teams took part in the race.
route
The tour, which was organized by the Malaysian Ministry of Sport and Youth, began with a 94-kilometer stage on Langkawi Island. Just like the start, the second part of the day also ran on largely flat terrain, which encouraged mass sprints at the end of the stages.
At the beginning of the third stage, the Bukit Gantang was the first difficult climb, but this was followed by quite flat roads. The following day the route turned from the coast inland, the more than thirty kilometers long ascent into the Cameron Highlands should bring a preliminary decision in the fight for the overall victory. And the fifth part of the day came up with a pass over thirty kilometers long and a mountain arrival in the Genting Highlands .
Finally, the next, undulating stages led through the southwest of the island of Langkawi , with the seventh stage having another mountain arrival. On February 1st, the race ended with a circuit in the Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur .
Stages
| stage | Day | Start finish | Type | km | Stage winner | Overall rating |
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| 1. | January 23 | Dataran Helang > Pekan Kuah |  |
94.3 |
Andrea Guardini
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Andrea Guardini
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| 2. | January 24th | Kangar > Butterworth | |
145.0 |
Andrea Guardini
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| 3. | January 25th | Taipin > Sitiawan |  |
144.9 |
 Marcel Kittel
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| 4th | January 26th | Ayer Tawar > Cameron Highlands |  |
137.6 |
 Takeaki Ayabe
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Takeaki Ayabe
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| 5. | January 27th | Tapah > Genting Highlands | |
124.4 |
Jonathan Monsalve
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Libardo Niño
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| 6th | January 28th | Rawang > Putrajaya | |
107.0 |
Andrea Guardini
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| 7th | January 29th | Banting > Tampin | |
149.5 |
Andrea Guardini
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| 8th. | January 30th | Kuala Pilah > Jasin | |
156.5 |
Robert Forster
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Jonathan Monsalve
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| 9. | 31 January | Melaka > Nilai | |
151.7 |
 Boris Schpilewski
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| 10. | February 1st | UITM Shah Alam> Kuala Lumpur (circuit) | |
104.6 |
Andrea Guardini
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Race course
As expected, the first two days of the Tour de Langkawi 2011 ended in a mass sprint. Somewhat surprisingly, Andrea Guardini from Farnese Vini-Neri Sottoli was unbeatable in his first professional race and after his first victories as a professional cyclist also wore the yellow jersey of the overall leader up into the mountains. On the third stage, Guardini had to admit defeat for the first time in the sprint as third of the day, when the German neo-professional Marcel Kittel ( Skil-Shimano ) was also able to achieve his first professional success.
On the fourth day, the field led to the Cameron Highlands , where the 30-year-old Japanese Takeaki Ayabe from the Aisan Racing Team celebrated his first win in an international race and took the overall lead. Ayabe and seven other drivers from the 20-strong group of favorites had separated by two seconds and could not be beaten in the final sprint. The following day there was also a sprint for victory in the Genting Highlands . This time it was the Venezuelan Jonathan Monsalve who - also in his first professional race - beat the Colombian Libardo Niño ( LeTua Cycling Team ). Niño slipped into the yellow jersey two seconds ahead of Monsalve ( Androni Giocattoli ). Behind the two South Americans, five other drivers came close to the finish line, including Emanuele Sella , who later came third overall .
On the next two stages there were again mass sprints, in which Andrea Guardini was again in front. But on the eighth section of the day, the Italian was beaten by a German again: Robert Förster from UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling was now at the top after two top ten placements on the two previous days and celebrated his first victory in almost two years. André Schulze and Dene Rogers were ahead of the fourth-placed Guardini . Meanwhile, there was a change in the lead in the overall standings: thanks to two second places in the intermediate sprints and the associated time bonuses, Jonathan Monsalve took the yellow jersey two seconds ahead of Libardo Niño .
Due to a flood, the penultimate stage was shortened to 127 kilometers. Surprisingly, there was no mass sprint, because twenty kilometers from the finish a leading group with eleven men pulled away from the field, including the previous day's winner Robert Förster . The Russian Boris Schpilewski from the Tabriz Petrochemical Team , who had already landed in the top ten in several mass sprints of the race, attacked one kilometer from the finish and won the section by two seconds. Jonathan Monsalve extended his lead in the overall standings to five seconds after adding three bonus seconds in the intermediate sprints. On the final stage in Kuala Lumpur , Andrea Guardini celebrated for the fifth time , the young sprinter won half of the sections, secured the blue jersey of the best on points and celebrated an outstanding professional debut. The same applied to the Venezuelan Monsalve, who also contested his first race as a professional cyclist and won it straight away. The 42-year-old Colombian Libardo Niño, on the other hand, was caught in the yellow jersey after a few days and finished the tour in second ahead of Monsalve's Italian team-mate Emanuele Sella .
Scoring jerseys in the course of the race
| stage |
total
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mountain
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Points
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Best Asian
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team
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Best Asian team
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| 1. | Andrea Guardini | Koen de Kort | Andrea Guardini | Sungbaek Park | Terengganu Cycling Team | Terengganu Cycling Team |
| 2. | Anuar Manan | |||||
| 3. | Mehdi Sohrabi | |||||
| 4th | Takeaki Ayabe | Rahim Emami | Takeaki Ayabe | Chipotle Development Team | Tabriz Petrochemical Team | |
| 5. | Libardo Niño | Jonathan Monsalve | Rahim Emami | Azad University | Azad University | |
| 6th | Anuar Manan | |||||
| 7th | Andrea Guardini | |||||
| 8th. | Jonathan Monsalve | |||||
| 9. | Tabriz Petrochemical Team | |||||
| 10. |
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.ltdl.com - Official route map ( Memento of the original from November 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.ltdl.com - Official results lists ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
