Le Tour De Langkawi – LTDL

A total of 22 teams, comprising WorldTour, Continental Professional, Continental and national teams have confirmed their participation in this edition of the race, which will cover a total distance of 1,341km across eight states in Peninsula Malaysia.

Pacioni Takes Stage 6, No Changes In Jersey Holders

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Luca Pacioni’s turn to take a bunch sprint victory as the sprinters battled again at the end of Stage 6 of Le Tour de Langkawi (LTdL) 2018 from Tapah to Tanjung Malim

TANJUNG MALIM: It was Wilier Triestina-Selle Italia’s Luca Pacioni’s turn to take a bunch sprint victory as the sprinters battled again at the end of Stage 6 of Le Tour de Langkawi (LTdL) 2018 from Tapah to Tanjung Malim today.

Although today was the shortest stage of the race with a distance of just 108km, the start time at 3pm gave the peloton a different challenge underneath the scorching heat in the earlier part of the stage, before they faced torrential rain mid-stage.

The 22-year old Pacioni, who had raced under Colpack, Lampre-Merida and Androni before signing for Wilier this year, is on a hot streak after winning stages in the Tour of Gabon and the Tour of Taiwan before coming to LTdL, and he showd his form after holding off green jersey holder Riccardo Minali of Astanaand Terengganu Cycling Team’s (TSG) Harrif Salleh at the finish to take the win.

At the end of today’s stage, TSG’s Artem Ovechkin retained the yellow jersey as the overall leader after taking the victory in the Cameron Highlands stage yesterday and also maintained his lead in the mountains classification, while Minali’s second place finish saw him extend his lead in the points classification to 55 points, nine ahead of Andrea Guardini of Bardiani-CSF, who only managed fourth in the stage, behind Harrif.

Astana’s Yevgeniy Gidich retained the white jersey as the leading Asian rider, while Sapura’s Muhammad Nur Aiman Zariff remained the leading Malaysian rider for the second straight day.

Although the flat stage was expected to be down to a bunch sprint among the top sprinters, Pacioni’s presence at the front was a surprise as the peloton surged towards the final sprint in front of Balai Lintang in Tanjung Malim.

Pacioni, who was born in Gatteo, Italy, said the victory was down to planning the right strategy for the finish.

“Before we arrived at the final turn with about 100 metres to go, I was already sprinting in a comfortable position. My teammate Eugert Zhupa also worked very hard today to bring me to the front,” said Pacioni.

“This victory is sweet as I have proven that I can also sprint despite not being a pure sprinter. I am not afraid to compete in the final sprint. What is important is the right trategy,” said Pacioni, who vowed to add to his victory in the final two stages.

Overall leader Ovechkin said he had played it safe today, riding behind his TSG teammates who also played their role in chasing down breakaways.

“Today was like a rest day for me because it was a short stage, but together with the sprinters’ teams, my team had to work hard throughout the stage to chase down the breakaways,” said Ovechkin.

“TSG will focus on defending the yellow jersey with tomorrow’s stage being very long and with some climbing,” said Ovechkin, who is still 32 seconds ahead of St George Continental’s Benjamin Dyball in the general classification and 10 points ahead of Forca Amskins’ Alvaro Duarte in the mountains classification.

Minali, who is the only rider to have won more than one stage in the race thus far after winning in Kota Bharu and Pekan, admitted that Pacioni was the fastest man in the sprint today.

“I was left behind when we approached the final turn and despite being behind him, it was clear that Pacioni was sprinter better and I failed to overtake him. But second place is not too bad and I can still add to my victories in the coming stages,” said Minali.

The local fans, especially those of TSG were again given some reason to cheer today when Harrif Salleh stepped onto the podium for the second time with another third place to add to his third spot in Pekan two days ago.

“TSG worked hard today, especially to protect the yellow jersey. But when the peloton had caught the last of the breakaways, I shifted my focus to trying to win today’s stage,” said Harrif.

“There was a small crash as we approached the finish and that disturbed my tempo a little bit and I was slow to react when the riders in front of me began to sprint for the finish line.”

In Stage 6 today, the peloton maintained a fast pace, covering the 108km with an average speed of 44.9kp/h despite rain at the half-way point.

The most threatening breakaway came via Thailand Continental’s Turakit Boonratanathanakorn, who launched a solo attack after just 20km and opened up a maximum gap of 3 minutes and 30 seconds.

Turakit was caught with 12km to go and had to pay a heavy price for his exhaustive effort after failing to hang on and was dropped as the peloton surged towards the finish line, ending his day 3 minutes and 13 seconds behind winner Pacioni, who finished in 2 hours 24 minutes and 55 seconds.

After the shortest stage today, the peloton moves into Stage 7, the longest stage of the race, covering 222.4km from Nilai to Muar, which could yet see changes to the leaders’ jerseys.

The stage begins at the National Velodrome in Nilai and involves three intermediate sprints in Mantin (Km 9.7), Tampin (Km 136.2) and Tangkak (Km194.7) and six categorised climbs at Mantin (km14.9) Lenggeng (Km23.9), Bukit Putus (Km49.2), Sri Menanti (Km63.2), Inas (Km88.2) and Bukit Miku (Km112.5).

The UCI 2.HC status race, covering an overall distance of 1,341.2 km throught eight states in Peninsula Malaysia, will see 22 teams competing for honours.

LTdL 2018 is organised by Ciclista Sports with the full support of the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

RESULTS

STAGE

  1. 1. Luca Pacioni – WILLIER TRIESTINA – 2:24:55
  2. 2. Riccardo Minali – ASTANA – same
  3. 3. Mohd Harrid Salleh – TSG – same

OVERALL

  1. 1. Artem Ovechkin – TSG – 23:46:29
  2. 2. Benjamin Dyball – ST.GEORGE CONTINENTAL – 23:47:01
  3. 3. Harrison Sweeney – MITCHELTON BIKEEXCHANGE – 23:47:28

BEST SPRINTERS’ (GREEN JERSEY)

  1. 1. Riccardo Minali – ASTANA – 55 points
  2. 2. Andrea Guardini –BARDINI – 46 points
  3. 3. Luca Pacioni – WILLIER TRISTINA – 35 points

BEST CLIMBERS’ (RED POLKA DOT JERSEY)

  1. 1. Artem Ovechkin – TSG – 40 points
  2. 2. Alvaro Sandoval – Forca Amskins – 30 points
  3. 3. Bernardo Arango – Manzana Postobon – 28 points

Belletti Menang Di Muar, Jersi Rebutan Tidak Berubah

Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec, Manuel Belletti memenangi Peringkat 7 dan laluan paling panjang dalam Le Tour de Langkawi 2018 dari Nilai ke Muar

MUAR: Selepas mencuba beberapa kali pakar pecut pasukan Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec, Manuel Belletti memenangi Peringkat 7 dan laluan paling panjang dalam Le Tour de Langkawi 2018 dari Nilai ke Muar hari ini, apabila menguasai henjutan terakhir sekumpulan 10 pelumba yang membuat pemecahan.

Pakar pecut berpengalaman itu, menamatkan kayuhan sejauh 222.4km yang turut mengandungi enam zon pendakian kategori 4 dan tiga zon pecutan, dengan masa 5 jam 8 minit 23 saat, di depan pelumba Wilier Trestina-Selle Italia, Eugert Zhupa serta pelumba Astana Pro Team, Ruslan Tleubayev.

Penyarung jersi kuning sejak tamat Peringkat 5 di Cameron Highlands, Artem Ocechkin dari pasukan TSG yang tiba dalam kelompok kedua, terus mengekalkan jersi kuning pendahulu di depan pencabar baru Lukasz Owsian dari CCC Sprandi Polkowice, dengan kelebihan 28 saat, menjelang peringkat kelapan dan terakhir dari Rembau ke Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur esok. Cameron Highlands Tours offered here.

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Ovechkin yang terpaksa bekerja keras dalam kayuhan itu untuk memastikan tidak terlepas jersi kuning turut mengekalkan jersi polka dot merah Raja Bukit (40 mata), biarpun suatu ketika seakan terlepas kepada Bernardo Albeiro Suaza (Manzana-Postobon) dan Alvaro Raul Duarte (Forca Amskins) yang menguasai beberapa zon pendakiaan awal pada peringkat itu dan masing-masing mengumpul 38 mata.

Jersi hijau Raja Pecut juga kekal menjadi milik Riccardo Minali dari pasukan Astana (55 mata) yang tidak mengumpul sebarang tambahan mata apabila pencabar terdekat Andrea Guardini tidak agresif di setiap zon pecutan dan tercicir dalam kelompok besar pelumba di belakang.

Begitupun, gelaran Pelumba Terbaik Malaysia berpindah kepada Muhamad Zawawi Azman dari Team Sapura Cycling yang bijak menempatkan diri dalam kelompok depan pada awal perlumbaan dan tiba dalam kumpulan kedua mengandungi 31 pelumba, 1 minit 23 saat di belakang kumpulan pertama..

Ketika ramalan awal menjangkakan kayuhan akan menyaksikan satu lagi henjutan beramai-ramai di garisan penamat, jarak yang panjang serta enam zon pendakian menyebabkan kelompok 118 pelumba berpecah kepada beberapa kumpulan besar.

Begitupun, Belletti bijak menempatkan diri dalam kelompok besar pelumba di depan, yang kemudian berpecah menjadi sekumpulan 10 pelumba ketika menghampiri Tangkak dan kekal kira-kira seminit 35 saat di depan kumpulan pengejar.

“Malam tadi, pasukan ada berbincang dua kemungkinan iaitu perlumbaan berakhir dengan kelompok besar dan peloton berpecah kepada beberapa kumpulan. Kami juga mengkaji laluan di kilometer terakhir.

“Jadi saya dan rakan sepasukan Androni sentiasa peka sepanjang kayuhan dan cuba menempatkan diri dalam kelompok di depan. Walaupun ada lima pelumba Androni di depan, saya akui peringkat hari ini begitu sukar dan kompetitif.

“Kemenangan hari ini sungguh bermakna kerana kali terakhir saya menang ialah dua tahun lalu hingga menyebabkan saya mengambil keputusan untuk menyertai Androni bagi musim perlumbaan tahun ini,” katanya yang tidak berlumba sepanjang tahun lalu kerana menghidap jangkitan virus.

Prestasinya juga hampir terjejas Januari lalu apabila terbabit dalam kemalangan dan mengalami patah rusuk serta tulang selangka di Argentina.

Belletti yang pernah menyarung jersi AG2R dan Colnago-Inox serta mengumpul satu  kemenangan peringkat di Giro d’Italia pada 2010 dalam kariernya berkata, dia akan cuba memburu satu lagi kemenangan peringkat esok.

“Saya berharap kemenangan hari ini akan menjadi permulaan yang baik bagi saya musim ini, dengan sasaran dapat berlumba dan menang di Giro lagi,” katanya.

Ovechkin ketika ditemui, berkata dia mendapat bantuan rakan sepasukan TSG sepanjang perlumbaan itu dan suatu ketika terpaksa bertindak sendiri dalam kumpulan yang mengandungi pesaing-pesaing terdekatnya.

“Seperti dijangka memang sukar tetapi semuanya okay kerana saya hanya perlu mengawasi beberapa pencabar terdekat saja,” katanya yang dibantu Metkel Eyob ketika berada dalam kumpulan pengejar pada peringkat itu.

Sementara itu, pelumba muda Sapura, Muhammad Zawawi yang mengambil alih tempat rakan sepasukan Sapura, Muhammad Nur Aiman Zariff sebagai pelumba terbaik Malaysia pada, berkata dia berbangga dapat memikul tugas dalam peringkat yang panjang dan sukar itu.

“Saya memang berada rapat dengan rakan sepasukan dari Colombia (Wilmar Perez Munoz dan Victor Nino Corredor) serta Dylan Page dan sentiasa berada di kelompok depan. Begitupun saya agak lambat untuk bertindak ketika kumpulan 10 pelumba yang itu meloloskan diri dan terpaksa berkayuh dalam kumpulan kedua saja,” kata pelumba kelahiran Ipoh yang menduduki tempat ke-24 dalam peringkat itu.

Daripada 118 pelumba yang mendaftarkan diri di awal perlumbaan, 14 pelumba gagal menamatkan kayuhan, menjadikan kini hanya 104 pelumba saja yang akan bersaing pada peringkat terakhir dari Rembau ke Kuala Lumpur esok.

Perlumbaan dengan jarak keseluruhan 1,341.2 km berstatus 2.HC dalam kalendar Jelajah Asia UCI itu akan disertai 22 pasukan dan laluannya melibatkan lapan negeri di Semenanjung Malaysia.

LTdL 2018 dianjurkan Ciclista Sports dengan sokongan penuh kerajaan menerusi Kementerian Belia dan Sukan.

RESULTS

STAGE

  1. 1. Manuel Belotti – ANDRONI GIOCATOLLI – 5:08:23
  2. 2. Eugert Zhupa – WILLIER TRIESTINA – same
  3. 3. Ruslan Tleubayiev – ASTANA – same

OVERALL

  1. 1. Artem Ovechkin – TSG – 28:56:20
  2. 2. Lukasz Owsian – CCC Sprandi – 28:56:48
  3. 3. Benjamin Dyball – ST GEORGE CONTINENTAL – 28:56:52

BEST SPRINTERS’ (GREEN JERSEY)

  1. 1. Riccardo Minali – ASTANA – 55 points
  2. 2. Andrea Guardini –BARDINI – 46 points
  3. 3. Luca Pacioni – WILLIER TRISTINA – 35 points

BEST CLIMBERS’ (RED POLKA DOT JERSEY)

  1. 1. Artem Ovechkin – TSG – 40 points
  2. 2. Bernardo Arango – Manzana Postobon – 38 points
  3. 3. Alvaro Sandoval – Forca Amskins – 38 points

Guardini Menang Lagi, Ovechkin Juara Individu Ltdl 2018

Andrea Guardini memenangi Peringkat 8 dan terakhir Le Tour de Langkawi 2018, sekaligus mengukuhkan rekod kemenangan peringkat kepada 24 serta mengesahkan gelaran Raja Pecut.

KUALA LUMPUR: Pelumba Bardiani-CSF, Andrea Guardini memenangi Peringkat 8 dan terakhir Le Tour de Langkawi 2018, sekaligus mengukuhkan rekod kemenangan peringkat kepada 24 serta mengesahkan gelaran Raja Pecut.

Dalam kayuhan sejauh 141km dari Rembau dan berakhir dengan lima pusingan loop di sekitar ibu kota itu, Guardini memungut 15 mata terakhir untuk memintas penyarung jersi hijau sebelum ini, Riccardo Minali (Astana) dengan hanya tiga mata.

Jersi kuning keseluruhan juga terus kekal menjadi milik pelumba Russia yang mewakili Terengganu Cycling Team (TSG), Artem Ovechkin yang bijak menempatkan dirinya dalam kelompok besar pelumba, dan berada 27 saat di depan pencabar terdekat dari CCC Sprandi-Polkowice, Lukasz Owsian.

Begitupun, Ovechkin yang memegang jersi polka dot merah sejak kemenangan peringkatnya di Cameron Highlands pada Peringkat 5, terpaksa akur kepada kehebatan pelumba Forca Amskins, Alvaro Raul Duarte yang bijak mengutip mata pada dua zon pendakian di Menara Tinjau dan Sungai Tekali untuk muncul pemenang gelaran Raja Bukit dengan 43 mata.

Pelumba Astana Pro Team, Yevgeniy Gidich pula mengesahkan statusnya apabila memenangi jersi putih Pelumba Terbaik Asia manakala Pelumba Terbaik Malaysia pada edisi ke-23 LTdL 2018 ini menjadi milik pelumba muda Team Sapura Cycling, Muhammad Zawawi Azman.

Dalam saingan berpasukan pula, Wilier Triestina yang mengumpul catatan masa keseluruhan dengan 96 jam 23 minit 38 saat, muncul pasukan terunggul untuk mengatasi Astana dengan kelebihan 14 saat dan Dimension Data (33 saat).

Dalam perlumbaan yang dilepaskan Menteri Belia dan Sukan, Khairy Jamaluddin di Rembau itu, sekali lagi peloton menyaksikan beberapa kumpulan kecil pelumba meloloskan diri tetapi pasukan TSG, Rally, Androni, Bardiani dan Astana bergilir-gilir mengejar dan menangkap kumpulan kecil di depan.

Malah cubaan dua pelumba, Scott Sunderland (Bennelong) dan Simone Velasco (Wilier) berada di depan sehingga memasuki loop terakhir juga dapat ditangkap sebelum Guardini mengesahkan gelaran Raja Pecut kali keempat dalam LTdL selepas 2011, 2012 dan 2016 serta kemenangan buat kali kelima di Dataran Merdeka.

“Saya suka penamat di Kuala Lumpur kerana saya gemar perlumbaan berbentuk sirkit. Lagipun, saya mengkaji laluan ke garisan penamat pada loop awal dan ketika menghampiri penamat, saya mencari ruang yang tepat di depan.

“Pada baki 100 meter saya terus memecut dan selesa berada di depan beberapa pencabar lain menjelang ke garisan penamat,” kata Guardini yang turut menghadiahkan kemenangan kali kelapan buat Bardiani di Dataran Merdeka dan ke-37 dalam sejarah penyertaan dalam LTdL.

Kehadiran Menteri Besar Terengganu, Datuk Seri Ahmad Razif Abdul Rahman di pentas kenamaan turut menyemarakkan sokongan terhadap penyokong TSG yang melihat Ovechkin akhirnya dinobat juara klasifikasi individu keseluruhan dalam LTdL.

Pelumba Russia yang disenaraikan pada saat-saat akhir itu nyata tidak mengecewakan apabila terus bijak mengekang pencabar terdekatnya sejak Peringkat 5 hingga peringkat terakhir hari ini.

“Memang saya gembira tetapi jersi ini juga adalah milik rakan sepasukan yang terpaksa bekerja keras setiap hari untuk melindungi dan membantu menarik saya ke depan serta menangkap kelompok pelumba yang membuat pemecahan.

“Namun fokus saya hari ini hanyalah jersi kuning, sebab itulah saya terpaksa berkorban melepaskan jersi polka dot dan memastikan berada bersama-sama pencabar terdekat,” kata Ovechkin.

Sementara itu, Duarte yang sebelum ini ketinggalan dua mata di belakang Ovechkin dalam senarai Raja Bukit, memungut satu mata di Sungai Tekali dan 4 mata di Menara Tinjau Ampang, untuk mengumpul 43 mata, 3 mata mengatasi Ovechkin.

“Terima kasih kepada Forca yang memberi peluang kepada saya berkayuh di LTdL walaupun ini adalah perlumbaan pertama kali saya di luar Colombia,” kata pelumba kelahiran Bogota itu.

LTdL 2018 dianjurkan Ciclista Sports dengan sokongan penuh kerajaan menerusi Kementerian Belia dan Sukan.

RESULTS

STAGE

  1. 1. Andrea Guardini – BARDIANI CSF – 3:10:25
  2. 2. Manuel Belletti – ANDRONI GIOCATOLLI – same
  3. 3. Luca Pacioni – WILLIER TRIESTINA – same

OVERALL

  1. Artem Ovechkin – TSG – 32:06:45
  2. Lukasz Owsian – CCC Sprandi – 32:07:12
  3. Benjamin Dyball – ST GEORGE CONTINENTAL – 32:07:17

BEST SPRINTERS’ (GREEN JERSEY)

  1. 1. Andrea Guardini –BARDINI – 61 points
  2. 2. Riccardo Minali – ASTANA – 58 points
  3. 3. Luca Pacioni – WILLIER TRISTINA – 44 points

BEST CLIMBERS’ (RED POLKA DOT JERSEY)

  1. 1. Alvaro Sandoval – Forca Amskins – 43 points 
  2. 2. Artem Ovechkin – TSG – 40 points
  3. 3. Bernardo Arango – Manzana Postobon – 38 points

BEST ASIAN (WHITE JERSEY)

  1. 1. Yevgeniy Gidich – ASTANA 
  2. 2. Daniil FominYKH – ASTANA 
  3. 3. Marcelo Felipe – SEVEN ELEVEN

BEST TEAM

  1. 1. Willier Triestina 
  2. 2. Astana 
  3. 3. Dimension Data

Ovechkin Shocks The Favourites To Sweep Stage 5 Victory, Yellow And Polka Dot

Artem Ovechkin mengungguli Peringkat 5 Le Tour de Langkawi 2018 dari Bentong ke Cameron Highlands hari ini, sekali gus merampas jersi kuning pendahulu keseluruhan serta jersi polka dot Raja Bukit.

CAMERON HIGHLANDS: Terengganu Cycling Team’s (TSG) Russian rider Artem Ovechkin turned overnight star today after conquering the queen stage of Le Tour de Langkawi (LTdL) 2018, riding solo across the finish line to bag victory in the stage from Bentong to Cameron Highlands.

Shocking the favourites in taking the yellow jersey as the overall leader and the polka dot jersey for the mountains classification lead, with just three flat stages to go Ovechkin finds himself on the verge of history as the first rider from a Malaysian team to bag the overall title in Asia’s biggest race.

On the deciding stage of the race today, Ovechkin who was only signed by the team a week before the start of this race, met the criteria required by the team to achieve their targets, with the Kuala Terengganu-based team now also in the lead of the overall teams classification.

This was also the fourth change of the overall leadership in five stages of the race so far, with Ovechkin, winner of a stage and the general while riding for Gazprom-Rusvelo in the Tour of Antalya in Turkey before signing with TSG taking the two jerseys, while hot favourite for the overall lead Yevgeniy Gidich of Astana had to be satisfied with just the Asian riders’ jersey.

Astana sprinter and double stage winner Riccardo Minali retained the lead in the points classification with 40 points, four ahead of Stage 1 winner Andrea Guardini of Bardiani-CSF.

Ovechkin arrived at the finish of the 169km stage in 4 hours 24 minutes and 29 seconds, 28 seconds ahead of second placed Benjamin Dyball of St George Continental Cycling Team and 44s ahead of third placed Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier of Dimension Data.

With a total time of 21 hours 21 minutes and 34 seconds, Ovechkin sits atop the general classification with a 32-seconds lead over Dyball in second spot, while Mitchelton-BikeExchange’s Harrison Sweeny is third, 59 seconds adrift of the Russian.

In the mountains classification meanwhile, Ovechkin’s solo attack saw him sweep the maximum points at both the first category summit at Ringlet and hors category summit in Tanah Rata to collect a total of 40 points, 12 ahead of Forca Amskins’ Colombian rider Alvaro Duarte.

TSG’s Metkel Eyob of Eritrea and Drew Morey of Austalia also placed high in the stage finish to help the team into the overall teams classification lead, two minutes and six seconds ahead of Astana, with Kinan Cycling Team a further five seconds adrift.

It all happened for Ovechkin when he decided to launch an attack from a leading group of nine riders as they approached the summit at Ringlet, but despite a chase the 32-year old from Berdsk, Russia managed to open up a gap of one minute and 40 seconds and sustained his position to the finish.

“When we approached the first summit, I chose to attack, but despite the chase from the others, they didn’t manage to catch me and after that I just focused on maintaining my rhythm,” said Ovechkin.

“This is a sweet victory and and the biggest in a 2.HC race in my career. It is sweeter because I have taken two jersey as well. But there are still three stages to go and we still need to defend this lead. I am confident that we will be able to do it despite Stage 7 from Nilai to Muar being a very long stage,” he added.

“We can’t celebrate victory yet and I am sure the TSG team will formulate a strategy to defend this lead at tonight’s meeting.”

Gidich, who was targeted by Astana to win the Cameron Highlands stage, said he had to be satisfied with the white jersey taken from Forca Amskins’ Nik Mohd Azwan Zulkiflie, who finished the stage in 62nd position.

“Obviously I am disappointed, but this is racing. I was unlucky today as despite Astana being a WorldTour team, we didn’t get this stage win. All my teammates had worked for that today,” said Gidich. ABC Tours offers local Malaysian Tours

Minali said despite not gaining the yellow jersey in the Camerons, Astana’s challenge has not ended and they will try to do something for Gidich to wrest the yellow jersey in the coming stages.

The best Malaysian rider on the stage was Sapura’s Muhammad Nur Aiman Zariff, who only managed 42nd spot, after arriving two minutes and 57 seconds behind Ovechkin.

LTdL 2018 continues with Stage 6, a short and flat stage from Tapah to Tanjung Malim tomorrow, covering 108.5km with the sprinters expected to do battle for the points classification.

The UCI 2.HC status race, covering an overall distance of 1,341.2 km throught eight states in Peninsula Malaysia, will see 22 teams competing for honours.

LTdL 2018 is organised by Ciclista Sports with the full support of the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

RESULTS

STAGE

  1. 1. Artem Ovechkin – TSG – 4:24:29
  2. 2. Benjamin Dyball – ST.GEORGE CONTINENTAL – 4:24:57
  3. 3. Amanuel Werkilul – DIMENSION DATA – 4:25:24

OVERALL

  1. 1. Artem Ovechkin – TSG – 21:21:34
  2. 2. Benjamin Dyball – ST.GEORGE CONTINENTAL – 21:22:06
  3. 3. Harrison Sweeney – MITCHELTON BIKEEXCHANGE – 21:22:33

BEST SPRINTERS’ (GREEN JERSEY)

  1. 1. Riccardo Minali – ASTANA – 43 points
  2. 2. Andrea Guardini –BARDINI – 39 points
  3. 3. Kim Daeyeon – KSPO – 27 points

BEST CLIMBERS’ (RED POLKA DOT JERSEY)

  1. 1. Artem Ovechkin – TSG – 40 points
  2. 2. Alvaro Sandoval – Forca Amskins – 28 points
  3. 3. Bernardo Arango – Manzana Postobon – 27 points

Five more local companies have stepped forward to inject vital sponsorship to Le Tour de Langkawi 2018 days before the 23rd edition of the Asia’s biggest race runs on March 18-25.

SHAH ALAM (12 March, 2018): Five more local companies have stepped forward to inject vital sponsorship to Le Tour de Langkawi 2018 days before the 23rd edition of the Asia’s biggest race runs on March 18-25.

The five companies – NUR Power Groups, the Terengganu State Government, Spritzer, Thule South East Asia Sdn Bhd and Givi Asia Sdn Bhd – stated their committment in a simple but meaningful ceremony here today.

LTdL 2018 chief executive officer M Kumaresan viewed the sponsorship as added excitement which also ensured the smooth running of the race, which begins in Kangar this Sunday.

He said it also proves there are many local companies that recognise LTdL as a viable platform to promote their products toa wider audience.

“The fact is that many agree that cycling stage races are a growing sport with a strong following and for sponsors, on our part we will try to ensure a win-win situation for each partner and company that contributes sponsorship,” said Kumaresan.

“We hope that when this race is publicised by the print and electronic media both foreign and local, the names of these sponsors and their products will be better known,” he added.

Represented by its director Tengku Zahaimi Tuan Hashim, NUR Power, the country’s first independent power supplier which had been granted approval to supply 220MW of electric power to the 115-acre Kulim Hi-Tech Industrial Park (KHTP) in Kedah since 1996, have contributed a total of RM300,000.

The Terengganu State Government have also provided a cash sponsorship of RM200,000.

Spritzer, represented by its events and promotions executive Wayne Tan Khai Giap, will provide 3,000 cartons of mineral water to hydrate the race entourage throughout the course of the eight-stage race.

The LTdL organisers also received 50 units of bicycle roof racks from Thule Southeast Asia, represented by its managing director Don Wag and marketing manager Wong Eu Gene.

To ensure the safety of the motorcycle units within the race entourage, Givi Asia have provided 200 units of crash helments which will be used by police, marshals and media personnel during the race.

Givi Asia managing director On Hai Swe said his company felt honoured to be involved for the first time in the race that is a national project.

“This race also receives wide coverage and is followed in Europe, including Italy, where our company headquarters is located. In line with our philosophy of prioritising safety, we have provided high quality helmets which are comfortable to be used by police and marshals during the race,” said Hai Swe.

LTdL 2018, featuring eight stages, is scheduled to begin in Kangar, Perlis on March 18, two days after the team presentation in Langkawi on March 16, with the grand finish scheduled in Kuala Lumpur on March 25.

A total of 22 teams, comprising WorldTour, Continental Professional, Continental and national teams have confirmed their participation in this edition of the race, which will cover a total distance of 1,341km across eight states in Peninsula Malaysia.

This 2.HC status race is organised by Ciclista Sports with full support of the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

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