Tour of Hainan 2013
| Tour of Hainan 2013 | |
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| Host country |
 People's Republic of China
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| Competition period | October 20-28, 2013 |
| Stages | nine stages |
| overall length | 1487.9 km |
| Starting field | 133 drivers from 30 nations in 20 teams (101 of which arrived at the finish) |
| winner | |
| Overall rating | 1. Moreno Hofland 33:44:00 h 2. Frédéric Amorison + 01:07 min 3. Tom Leezer + 01:14 min 
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| Team evaluation |
Belkin-Pro Cycling Team 101: 16:02 h
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| Scoring jerseys | |
 Overall rating
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Moreno Hofland
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 Scoring
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Moreno Hofland
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 Mountain scoring
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 Mateusz Taciak
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The 8th Tour of Hainan was a cycle stage race that took place from October 20 to 28, 2013 on the island of Hainan , which belongs to China . It was held in nine stages over a total distance of 1488 kilometers. The race was part of the UCI Asia Tour 2014 and was classified in the highest category 2nd 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 Moreno Hofland ( Belkin-Pro Cycling Team ) from the Netherlands , who also won three stages and the points classification and thus celebrated his first victories as a professional. The Belgian Frédéric Amorison came second with the Crelan-Euphony team, which had split up at the end of the season, a good minute behind . Hofland's teammate and compatriot Tom Leezer took third place on the podium .
Attendees
The starting field of the tour was international, many teams and drivers from Europe took part. The Pro Team Astana around defending champion Dmitri Grusdew was missing. With the Belkin Pro Cycling Team , there was still a ProTeam at the start, and four Professional Continental Teams took part in the race. There were also twelve Continental teams , including ARBÖ Gebrüder Weiss-Oberndorfer from Austria , Atlas Personal from Switzerland and the Quantec-Indeland team from Germany , as well as three national teams.
route
The Tour of Hainan 2013 led over largely flat terrain and was therefore ideally designed for the sprinters. The starting point this time was not Sanya in the south of the island, which was only reached on the fifth day, but Chengmai in the northwest of Hainan. The first stage led the field around the city for a mere 86 kilometers, before the daily sections subsequently ran clockwise, mostly near the coast around the island.
First it went east, from the third stage then south, and after the field of drivers had stopped in Sanya after the longest section of almost 219 kilometers, west. Finally, on the eighth day on the way to Danzhou, the topographically most demanding stage followed with three mountain ratings before the race ended at its starting point in Chengmai.
Stages
| stage | Day | Start finish | Type | km | Stage winner | Overall leader |
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| 1. | the 20th of October | Chengmai Old Town> Chengmai |  |
85.6 |
Moreno Hofland
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Moreno Hofland
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| 2. | October 21 | Chengmai> Haikou | |
175 |
Theo Bos
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| 3. | October 22nd | Haikou> Qionghai | |
147.4 |
Theo Bos
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| 4th | 23rd October | Qionghai> Wanning | |
183 |
Theo Bos
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| 5. | October 24th | Wanning> Sanya | |
218.6 |
Theo Bos
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| 6th | October 25 | Sanya> Wuzhishan | |
115.6 |
Moreno Hofland
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| 7th | October 26th | Wuzhishan> Dongfang | |
217.2 |
Theo Bos
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| 8th. | October 27 | Dongfang> Danzhou |  |
172.4 |
Moreno Hofland
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| 9. | 28th of October | Danzhou - Chengmai | |
148 |
Theo Bos
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Race course
A fifteen-strong breakaway group made the first stage among themselves, with the Dutchman Moreno Hofland ( Belkin-Pro Cycling Team ) breaking away from his companions seven kilometers from the finish together with Frédéric Amorison from Crelan-Euphony and then defeating Amorison in a two-man sprint. Hofland's team-mate Tom Leezer won the sprint of the pursuers seventeen seconds behind, ahead of the German Fabian Schnaidt ( Champion System Pro Cycling Team ). Hofland, Amorison and Leezer also took the first three places in the overall standings, which they should defend until the end of the race.
Hofland was able to extend his lead on Amorison on the second day thanks to the time bonuses in the two intermediate sprints and as second day in the mass sprint from seven to 27 seconds. Theo Bos was the stage winner for a Belkin double success, while Fabian Schnaidt was sixth and improved from fifth to fourth in the overall standings.
The third stage ended with exactly the same constellation as 24 hours before: Bos won again in the sprint before Hofland. At the same time, with Michael Kurth ( Team Quantec-Indeland / 7th), Schnaidt (8th) and Christoph Schweizer ( Synergy Baku Cycling Project / 9th), three German riders were able to place in the top ten.
On the fourth part of the day there was the third victory in a row for Bos, this time not in front of Hofland, but in front of New Zealander Rico Rogers (Synergy Baku Cycling Project). Fabian Schnaidt, on the other hand, only reached eleventh place and thus lost another position in the overall standings as the new fifth.
The fifth stage ended again without a German-speaking professional in the top ten of the day, while the Belkin team was able to clinch its third double victory in the sprint. Theo Bos landed again in the yellow jersey ahead of Moreno Hofland.
The next day, Bos could not keep up with the peloton and crossed the finish line more than three minutes behind. But this did not prevent the next Belkin double success, Hofland won the mass sprint ahead of Lars Boom . Christoph Schweizer completed the podium as third of the day, while Fabian Schnaidt, who also crossed the finish line at the same time as Hofland, was able to move up to fourth place in the overall standings due to Bos' time lag.
Belkin had celebrated four double victories so far, so the dominance of the World Tour racing team on the seventh stage was even greater than a four-fold success could be achieved. Bos sprinted to the finish before Boom, Hofland and Leezer. On the way, the Pole Mateusz Taciak from CCC Polsat-Polkowice had collected enough points to take over the mountain classification, which he was supposed to defend until the end of the tour.
On the hilly eighth section of the day, some sprinters - including Theo Bos - could not keep up with the top group of 35 drivers and fell back on the penultimate climb 65 kilometers from the finish. Instead of Bos, Hofland won the day for Belkin ahead of the Ukrainian Witalij Buz ( Lampre-Merida ) and Boom. For Fabian Schnaidt, who had been fourth in the overall standings, the tour ended prematurely.
On the final day it was Theo Bos's turn again and left behind, among others, the German Michael Kurth from the Quantec-Indeland team, who came third. Andreas Müller from Austria ( ARBÖ Gebrüder Weiss-Oberndorfer ) sprinted across the finish line in fourth. Belkin thus managed an almost perfect race, won all nine stages, the team and the points classification and brought three drivers, Hofland (1st), Leezer (3rd) and Jos van Emden (4th), into the top three of the overall standings.
Scoring jerseys in the course of the race
| stage |
Overall rating
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Scoring
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Mountain scoring
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 Team evaluation
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| 1. | Moreno Hofland | Moreno Hofland | not forgiven | Belkin-Pro Cycling Team |
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| 4th | Vitaly Buz | |||
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| 6th | ||||
| 7th | Mateusz Taciak | |||
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