Tour of Hainan 2011

Tour of Hainan 2011
Host country	People's Republic of China
Competition period	October 20th to 28th
Stages	nine stages
overall length	1399.8 km
Starting field	125 drivers from 29 nations in 21 teams (97 of them arrived at the finish)
winner
Overall rating	1. Valentin Iglinskiy 34:02:42 h 2. Reinardt Janse van Rensburg + 00:13 min 3. Alexander Schmitt + 00:20 min
Team evaluation	Geox-TMC 102: 09:33 h
Scoring jerseys
total	Valentin Iglinskiy
Points	Kenny van Hummel
mountain	Maurizio Gorato
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The 6th Tour of Hainan was a cycle stage race that took place from October 20 to 28, 2011 on the island of Hainan , which belongs to China . It was held in nine stages over a total distance of 1400 kilometers. The race was part of the UCI Asia Tour 2012 and classified there in the highest category 2.HC. The first fifteen riders in the overall standings and the first eight of each stage as well as those wearing the yellow jersey of the overall leader received points for the Asia ranking list after each stage.

The overall winner of the tour was Valentin Iglinskiy from Kazakhstan from Pro Team Astana , who was able to defend his previous year's title. He won with a 13-second lead over the second-placed South African Reinardt Janse van Rensburg ( MTN Qhubeka ). The podium was completed by the German Alexander Schmitt from the Eddy Merckx-Indeland team .

Attendees

The starting field of the tour was international, many teams and drivers from Europe and America took part. A ProTeam was at the start with Team Astana , and four Professional Continental Teams took part in the race. There were also fourteen Continental teams , including ARBÖ Gebrüder Weiss-Oberndorfer from Austria , Atlas Personal from Switzerland , the Differdange-Magic-SportFood.de team from Luxembourg and the Eddy Merckx-Indeland team from Germany , as well as two national teams.

ProTeams Pro team Astana Professional Continental Teams CCC Polsat Polkowice Geox-TMC Skil-Shimano Team Type 1-Sanofi Aventis National teams  People's Republic of China  Hong Kong

Continental teams China 361 ° Cycling Team Aisan Racing Team ARBÖ Gebrüder Weiss-Oberndorfer Atlas staff Champion system Drapac Giant Kenda Cycling Team

Team Eddy Merckx-Indeland MTN Qhubeka Perutnina Ptuj Tabriz Petrochemical Team Team Differdange-Magic-SportFood.de Terengganu Cycling Team La Pomme Marseille

route

The 2011 Tour of Hainan was largely flat and was therefore ideal for the sprinters. The starting point was Sanya in the south of the island. The first stage took the field northeast and then inland to Wuzhishan . On the second day, there were only 89 kilometers to be covered around Wuzhishan. Then there was a transfer to Xinglong , located south of the bank , where the third stage started the next day, which took the participants north to the city of Wenchang .

The fourth stage ran from Wenchang on the west side of the island to Haikou . After the following section to Chengmai , the longest stage of the tour was on the program, which led over 202 kilometers from Danzhou to Dongfang in the extreme southwest of the island. From there the route went south back to Sanya, where the Tour of Hainan ended with an 88-kilometer circuit (six laps) in the city.

Stages

stage	Day	Start finish	Type	km	Stage winner	Overall rating
1.	the 20th of October	Sanya > Wuzhishan		163.5	Justin Jules	Justin Jules
2.	October 21	Wuzhishan		88.6	Yasuharu Nakajima
3.	October 22nd	Xinglong > Wenchang		161.6	Tom Veelers
4th	23rd October	Wenchang> Haikou		163.8	Deon Locke
5.	October 24th	Haikou> Chengmai		151.6	Anuar Manan
6th	October 25	Chengmai> Danzhou		201.6	Kenny van Hummel
7th	October 26th	Danzhou> Dongfang		196	Kenny van Hummel
8th.	October 27	Dongfang> Sanya		184.7	Valentin Iglinskiy	Valentin Iglinskiy
9.	28th of October	Sanya		88.2	Kenny van Hummel

Race course

The first stage ended in a mass sprint, in which the Frenchman Justin Jules ( La Pomme Marseille ) defeated last year's winner of the tour, Valentin Iglinskiy ( Pro Team Astana ) and slipped on the yellow jersey of the overall leader.

On the second day, the race saw a solo winner with Yasuharu Nakajima from the Aisan Racing Team , who was already beaten in the overall standings and therefore could not endanger the leader Jules, who was third in the sprint of the field behind Kenny van Hummel and thanks to the time bonuses his lead in the overall standings on Iglinskiy to five seconds.

The third part of the day was then decided again in a mass sprint, Tom Veelers ( Skil-Shimano ) was the fastest in front of his compatriot and teammate van Hummel. Jules extended his overall lead to seven seconds thanks to the bonus seconds on an intermediate sprint.

On the fourth day of the tour, three outliers were able to cross the finish line a few seconds ahead of the peloton , with Deon Locke from Champion System taking the first stage win for a Chinese team ahead of Ma Hainjun (China) and Wong Kam Po . The field was again led by Tom Veelers. The German Alex Schmitt from the Eddy Merckx-Indeland team improved to third place in the overall ranking, at the same time as Iglinskiy.

The fifth stage saw a one-two victory for the Terengganu Cycling Team from Malaysia in a mass sprint : Anuar Manan won ahead of Mohamed Harrif Salleh . Kenny van Hummel took over the jersey of the best in points, which he should also wear at the end of the tour.

It was also Van Hummel who one day later ensured Skil-Shimano's second success in the 2011 Tour of Hainan in the sprint . Peter Erdin from Switzerland from Atlas Personal was third behind Salleh for the day, while Valentin Iglinskiy was able to reduce his gap to Jules to six seconds in the overall standings.

The seventh stage also went to van Hummel in a mass sprint, Justin Jules defended his yellow jersey once again as fourth of the day.

But on the penultimate part of the day that followed, the Frenchman was left behind and lost almost 25 minutes on top. Defending champion Valentin Iglinskiy won the stage in the sprint of the field and slipped into the yellow jersey. Thanks to his third place on the day, Reinardt Janse van Rensburg from MTN Qhubeka was able to move up to second place in the overall ranking, ahead of the German Alex Schmitt, thanks to the associated time bonus.

At the end of the tour, Kenny van Hummel again won the mass sprint in his last race for Skil-Shimano, he switched to Vacansoleil-DCM for the 2012 season . At the same time, he also won the Iglinskiy jersey back. Justin Jules was third again of the day, but last year's winner Valentin Iglinskiy from Kazakhstan secured the overall victory . The second-best German in the overall standings behind third-placed Alex Schmitt was his team-mate Matthias Bertling in sixth.

Scoring jerseys in the course of the race

stage	total	Points	mountain	team
1.	Justin Jules	Justin Jules	Maurizio Gorato	Drapac
2.			Julien Antomarchi
3.		Valentin Iglinskiy		Skil-Shimano
4th
5.		Kenny van Hummel		Geox-TMC
6th			Maurizio Gorato
7th
8th.	Valentin Iglinskiy	Valentin Iglinskiy
9.		Kenny van Hummel

Web links

• Official website of the race
• Results of the race on live-radsport.ch