Tour of Taihu Lake 2017
| 8th Tour of Taihu Lake 2017 | |
| Racing series | UCI Asia Tour - Category 2.1 |
| Host country |
 People's Republic of China
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| Competition period | October 10th to 17th |
| Stages | Prologue + 7 stages |
| overall length | 870.6 km |
| Starting field | 137 drivers in 24 teams (109 of them arrived at the finish) |
| winner | |
| Overall rating | 1. Jakub Mareczko (WIL) 19:10:46 h 2. Guillaume Boivin (ICA) +0: 30 min 3. Carlos Alzate (UHC) +0: 35 min  
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| Team evaluation |
 Kolss Cycling Team 57:34:47 h
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| Scoring jerseys | |
 Overall rating
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Jakub Mareczko (WIL)
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 Scoring
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Jakub Mareczko (WIL)
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 Young talent evaluation
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Jakub Mareczko (WIL)
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 Best Asian
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 Kazushige Kuboki (NIP)
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| ← 2016 | 2018 → |
The 8th Tour of Taihu Lake 2017 was a Chinese road bike race . The stage race took place from October 10th to 18th, 2017 . In addition, the bike race was part of the UCI Asia Tour 2017 and was classified in category 2.1 . Overall winner was the Italian Jakub Mareczko from Wilier Triestina .
The Canadian Guillaume Boivin (Israel Cycling Academy) won the prologue in 6:12 minutes ahead of the Romanian Serghei Țvetcov . Boivin took over the overall management. The first stage around Wuxi was won by the Italian Nicolas Marini (Nippo) in the mass sprint ahead of Ryan MacAnally (Australia / H&R Block). Boivin kept the overall lead.
Jakub Mareczko (Italy / Wilier Triestina) won the mass sprint on stages two to four. On the third stage, Nicolas Marini won the yellow jersey due to bonuses from Boivin. Mareczko again secured the overall lead on stage four.
Jon Aberasturi (Spain / Ukyo) was the winner of the mass sprint on stage five, ahead of Mareczko, who defended the overall lead.
The last two stages were again secured by Mareczko in a mass sprint, who kept the overall lead until the end and won the entire tour.
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Stages
| stage | Day | Start finish | Type | km | Stage winner | Overall rating |
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| prolog | October 10th | Wuxi > Wuxi |  |
5.3 |
Guillaume Boivin (ICA) |
Guillaume Boivin (ICA)
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| 1. | October 11th | Wuxi > Wuxi |  |
111.3 |
Nicolas Marini (NIP)
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| 2. | October 12th | Wujin > Wujin | |
117.3 |
Jakub Mareczko (WIL)
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| 3. | October 13th | Huzhou > Changxiang | |
134.3 |
Jakub Mareczko (WIL) |
Nicolas Marini (NIP)
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| 4th | October 14th | Wujiang > Wujiang | |
117.4 |
Jakub Mareczko (WIL) |
Jakub Mareczko (WIL)
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| 5. | 15th October | Nantong > Haimen | |
148.0 |
 Jon Aberasturi (UKO)
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| 6th | October, 16th | Jiangyan > Jiangyan | |
106.4 |
Jakub Mareczko (WIL)
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| 7th | October 17th | Chishanhu Lake > Maoshan |  |
130.6 |
Jakub Mareczko (WIL)
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Scoring jerseys
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Scoring
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Young talent evaluation
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Best Asian
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Team evaluation |
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| prolog | Guillaume Boivin | Guillaume Boivin | not forgiven | Jason Lowndes | Cheung King-lok | Israel Cycling Academy |
| 1 | Nicolas Marini | Nicolas Marini | ||||
| 2 | Jakub Mareczko | Nicolas Marini | ||||
| 3 | Jakub Mareczko | Nicolas Marini | Jakub Mareczko | |||
| 4th | Jakub Mareczko | Jakub Mareczko | Jakub Mareczko | |||
| 5 | Jon Aberasturi | |||||
| 6th | Jakub Mareczko | |||||
| 7th | Jakub Mareczko | Kazushige Kuboki | Kolss Cycling Team | |||
| Valuation winner | Jakub Mareczko | Jakub Mareczko | Jakub Mareczko | Kazushige Kuboki | Kolss Cycling Team | |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Boivin wins the start of the Tour of Taihu Lake. radsport-news.com, October 10, 2017, accessed October 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Change of leadership at Tour of Iran, Marini with stage victory in China. radsport-news.com, October 11, 2017, accessed October 11, 2017 .
- ↑ Rebel cheers in Iran, Mareczko the fastest in China. radsport-news.com, October 12, 2017, accessed October 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Mareczko celebrates again at Taihu Lake, Ruijgh wins Tour of Iran. radsport-news.com, October 13, 2017, accessed October 13, 2017 .
- ↑ Mareczko does hat trick on Tour of Taihu Lake. radsport-news.com, October 14, 2017, accessed October 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Mareczko only runner-up this time, but extends his lead. radsport-news.com, October 15, 2017, accessed October 15, 2017 .
- ↑ Mareczko back on the road to success at Tour of Taihu Lake. radsport-news.com, October 16, 2017, accessed October 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Mareczko wins the 2017 Tour of Taihu Lake. radsport-news.com, October 17, 2017, accessed October 17, 2017 .