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8th Tour of Japan - 2.5
Japan, May 23-30, 2004
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Stage 4 - May 28: Circuit in Twin Ring Motegi, Motegi, 148.56km
Schulze wins bunch sprint
By Miwako Sasaki, Japan Cycle Sports
German Andre Schulze (VC Frankfurt-Radteam-Bruegelman) has won the fourth stage of the Tour of Japan ahead of Mariusz Wiesiak (Team Nippo) and Edmund Hollands (Giant Asia Racing Team).
The race was held on a Motor Circuit over 12 laps of 12.38 km and it was very fast. Five riders made a breakaway after two laps containing two Australians: Aaron Kemps (Australia National Team), Glen Chadwick (Giant Asia Racing Team), Canadian Andrew Randell (Jet Fuel Coffee), Spaniard Miguel Luis Peńa (Team Etxeondo) and Japanese sprinter Takehiro Mizutani (Team Bridgestone Anchor).
At 5 laps to go, the break had a 5'00 advantage to the peloton which was controlled by the race leader's Aisan Ind. Racing Team. But the gap decreased quickly from then on. At two laps to go, Randell jumped clear of the break and tried to stay away solo, but the peloton caught him. Schulze, who was second in the first stage, won the bunch sprint.
Takumi Beppu (Aisan Ind. Racing Team) finished with the bunch, and kept his green leader's jersey.
The final hilly stage of the ToJ will take place in Utsunomiya tomorrow, and this year's overall winner will be decided there.
Australian National Team Report
By Brian Stephens, Australian Under 23 Team Manager
The fourth stage of the Tour of Japan was raced today on the Motegi motor racing circuit. The course was undulating and there was a fairly stiff breeze blowing across the circuit. The attacks started from the gun and the first one of consequence was made up of five riders including Australians Aaron Kemps riding for the National team and Glen Chadwick for Giant Asia. All but one rider from Exteondo, worked hard in the break and the lead got out to over four minutes. Aaron won three intermediate sprints, putting him in the lead of the competition. Eventually the break was shut down in the final lap and the race was decided in a bunch sprint won by Frankfurt rider, Andre Schultze. Eddie Hollands, David Betts and Nick Sanderson were 3rd, 4th and 5th respectively.
Results
1 Andre Schulze (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 3.35.36 2 Mariusz Wiesiak (Pol) Team Nippo 3 Edmund Hollands (Aus) Giant Asia Racing Team 4 David Betts (Aus) Australian National Team 5 Nicholas Sanderson (Aus) Australian National Team 6 Christian Heule (Swi) Team Macandina 7 Alonso Aitor Galdos (Spa) Team Nippo 8 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team 9 Junichi Shibuya (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 10 Roberto Lozano (Spa) Team Etxeondo 11 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Aisan-Ind Racing Team 12 Masamichi Yamamoto (Jpn) Shimano Racing 13 Guozhang Wang (Chn) People's Republic of China 14 Ngai Ching Wong (HKg) Hong Kong China 15 Jan Ramsauer (Swi) Team Macandina 16 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 17 Danny Sijen (Ned) Team Fuji Bikes 18 Kevin Miller (Can) Jet Fuel Coffee 19 Stefano Guerrini (Ita) Team Nippo 20 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) Australian National Team 21 Takumi Beppu (Jpn) Aisan-Ind Racing Team 22 Marcel Klaus (Swi) Team Macandina 23 Karsten Volkmann (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 24 Kyoshi Miura (Jpn) Kinan CCD 25 Yoshiyuki Abe (Jpn) Shimano Racing 26 Kuan Hua Lai (Tpe) Giant Asia Racing Team 27 Bas Robroek (Ned) Team Fuji Bikes 28 Roman Gugger (Swi) Team Macandina 29 Maikel Paas (Ned) Team Fuji Bikes 30 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Shimano Racing 31 Michael Mueller (Swi) Team Macandina 32 Ken Hashikawa (Jpn) Kinan CCD 33 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Hong Kong China 34 Maarten De Jonge (Ned) Team Fuji Bikes 35 Ikki Yoneyama (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pearl Izumi 36 Sebastian Franco (Spa) Team Etxeondo 37 Yasutaka Tashiro (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 38 Akira Kakinuma (Jpn) Kinan CCD 39 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Shimano Racing 40 Kazuyuki Manabe (Jpn) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team 41 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Shimano Racing 42 Manabu Hirose (Jpn) Kinan CCD 43 Mikhail Teteriouk (Kaz) Team Nippo 44 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (Iri) Giant Asia Racing Team 45 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Team Nippo 46 Masahiro Shinagawa (Jpn) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team 47 Yoshinori Iino (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pearl Izumi 48 Chun Ming Tsoi (HKg) Hong Kong China 49 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 50 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Australian National Team 51 Kazuo Inoue (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 52 Ashley Humbert (Aus) Australian National Team 53 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Hong Kong China 54 Richard Moffatt (Aus) Australian National Team 55 Glen Chadwick (Aus) Giant Asia Racing Team 56 Makoto Takeuchi (Jpn) Team Etxeondo 57 Bruno Buetiger (Swi) Team Macandina 58 Takehiro Mizutani (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 59 Miguel Luis Pena (Spa) Team Etxeondo 60 Henning Jaecks (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 61 Kin San Wu (HKg) Hong Kong China 62 Tetsuya Ishida (Jpn) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team 63 Takeshi Hashimoto (Jpn) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team 64 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Team Nippo 65 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Giant Asia Racing Team 66 Mitsuteru Tanaka (Jpn) Aisan-Ind Racing Team 0.15 67 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Shimano Racing 1.32 68 Jiguo Li (Chn) People's Republic of China 69 Ryan Roth (Can) Jet Fuel Coffee 70 Daisuke Hioki (Jpn) Kinan CCD 3.33 71 Vladislavs Lukasenko (Lat) Team Fuji Bikes 72 Marc Hohmann (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 73 Andrew Randell (Can) Jet Fuel Coffee 3.55 74 Koki Shimbo (Jpn) Aisan-Ind Racing Team 4.22 75 Takashi Nakazato (Jpn) Team Etxeondo 76 Osamu Sumida (Jpn) Kinan CCD 6.08 77 Ken Akita (Jpn) Aisan-Ind Racing Team 78 Patrik Kohler (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 11.56 79 Kojiro Nakagawa (Jpn) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team 20.56 79 Kazutaka Fukao (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pearl Izumi General classification after stage 4 1 Takumi Beppu (Jpn) Aisan-Ind Racing Team 12.23.01 2 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 0.02 3 Roberto Lozano (Spa) Team Etxeondo 0.16 4 Christian Heule (Swi) Team Macandina 0.17 5 Mikhail Teteriouk (Kaz) Team Nippo 0.19 6 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Shimano Racing 0.24 7 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Shimano Racing 0.55 8 Yasutaka Tashiro (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 1.13 9 Guozhang Wang (Chn) People's Republic of China 1.30 10 Sebastian Franco (Spa) Team Etxeondo 11 David Betts (Aus) Australian National Team 1.32 12 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (Iri) Giant Asia Racing Team 1.36 13 Kazuyuki Manabe (Jpn) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team 1.47 14 Ashley Humbert (Aus) Australian National Team 2.24 15 Jan Ramsauer (Swi) Team Macandina 3.18 16 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 4.01 17 Kuan Hua Lai (Tpe) Giant Asia Racing Team 6.20 18 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Shimano Racing 6.35 19 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Team Nippo 7.07 20 Edmund Hollands (Aus) Giant Asia Racing Team 7.36 21 Yoshiyuki Abe (Jpn) Shimano Racing 7.43 22 Glen Chadwick (Aus) Giant Asia Racing Team 8.24 23 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Shimano Racing 8.49 24 Masamichi Yamamoto (Jpn) Shimano Racing 9.53 25 Karsten Volkmann (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 10.44 26 Mariusz Wiesiak (Pol) Team Nippo 11.20 27 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Australian National Team 11.32 28 Junichi Shibuya (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 11.36 29 Marcel Klaus (Swi) Team Macandina 30 Akira Kakinuma (Jpn) Kinan CCD 31 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Team Nippo 12.57 32 Andrew Randell (Can) Jet Fuel Coffee 16.08 33 Kyoshi Miura (Jpn) Kinan CCD 16.21 34 Ken Hashikawa (Jpn) Kinan CCD 19.11 35 Richard Moffatt (Aus) Australian National Team 19.35 36 Manabu Hirose (Jpn) Kinan CCD 22.37 37 Miguel Luis Pena (Spa) Team Etxeondo 23.01 38 Makoto Takeuchi (Jpn) Team Etxeondo 23.30 39 Takehiro Mizutani (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 23.39 40 Alonso Aitor Galdos (Spa) Team Nippo 24.14 41 Bas Robroek (Ned) Team Fuji Bikes 24.29 42 Kazuo Inoue (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 24.31 43 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Aisan-Ind Racing Team 24.53 44 Bruno Buetiger (Swi) Team Macandina 25.16 45 Ngai Ching Wong (HKg) Hong Kong China 26.16 46 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Hong Kong China 26.22 47 Takeshi Hashimoto (Jpn) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team 28.08 48 Ikki Yoneyama (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pearl Izumi 28.53 49 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Giant Asia Racing Team 29.40 50 Michael Mueller (Swi) Team Macandina 30.00 51 Henning Jaecks (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 30.48 52 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team 30.53 53 Tetsuya Ishida (Jpn) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team 31.00 54 Koki Shimbo (Jpn) Aisan-Ind Racing Team 31.39 55 Mitsuteru Tanaka (Jpn) Aisan-Ind Racing Team 31.51 56 Marc Hohmann (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 32.31 57 Ken Akita (Jpn) Aisan-Ind Racing Team 33.15 58 Maarten De Jonge (Ned) Team Fuji Bikes 35.33 59 Masahiro Shinagawa (Jpn) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team 60 Danny Sijen (Ned) Team Fuji Bikes 35.41 61 Andre Schulze (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 36.03 62 Bernard Sulzberger (Aus) Australian National Team 36.19 63 Kevin Miller (Can) Jet Fuel Coffee 64 Roman Gugger (Swi) Team Macandina 65 Maikel Paas (Ned) Team Fuji Bikes 37.04 66 Stefano Guerrini (Ita) Team Nippo 38.01 67 Daisuke Hioki (Jpn) Kinan CCD 39.06 68 Chun Ming Tsoi (HKg) Hong Kong China 40.06 69 Nicholas Sanderson (Aus) Australian National Team 40.39 70 Osamu Sumida (Jpn) Kinan CCD 42.38 71 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Hong Kong China 44.25 72 Jiguo Li (Chn) People's Republic of China 47.10 73 Ryan Roth (Can) Jet Fuel Coffee 74 Vladislavs Lukasenko (Lat) Team Fuji Bikes 47.12 75 Yoshinori Iino (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pearl Izumi 47.34 76 Kin San Wu (HKg) Hong Kong China 48.42 77 Takashi Nakazato (Jpn) Team Etxeondo 52.50 78 Kojiro Nakagawa (Jpn) Miyata-Subaru Racing Team 1.01.02 79 Patrik Kohler (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 1.02.16 80 Kazutaka Fukao (Jpn) Sumita Ravanello Pearl Izumi 1.16.37 Points classification 1 Mariusz Wiesiak (Pol) Team Nippo 9 pts 2 Andre Schulze (Ger) VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brügelmann 9 3 Takumi Beppu (Jpn) Aisan-Ind Racing Team 6 4 Roberto Lozano (Spa) Team Etxeondo 6 5 Christian Heule (Swi) Team Macandina 6 6 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 4 7 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Shimano Racing 3 8 Edmund Hollands (Aus) Giant Asia Racing Team 3 9 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Australian National Team 3 10 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Team Nippo 3 11 Guozhang Wang (Chn) People's Republic of China 2 12 David Betts (Aus) Australian National Team 2 13 Alonso Aitor Galdos (Spa) Team Nippo 2 14 Jan Ramsauer (Swi) Team Macandina 1 15 Nicholas Sanderson (Aus) Australian National Team 1 Mountains classification 1 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Shimano Racing 12 pts 2 Yoshiyuki Abe (Jpn) Shimano Racing 10 3 Sebastian Franco (Spa) Team Etxeondo 6 4 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Shimano Racing 5 5 Miguel Luis Pena (Spa) Team Etxeondo 4 6 Ashley Humbert (Aus) Australian National Team 2 7 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 2 8 Masamichi Yamamoto (Jpn) Shimano Racing 2 9 Akira Kakinuma (Jpn) Kinan CCD 2 10 Takumi Beppu (Jpn) Aisan-Ind Racing Team 1 11 Edmund Hollands (Aus) Giant Asia Racing Team 1 12 Allan Iacuone (Aus) Giant Asia Racing Team 1 Sprints classification 1 Aaron Kemps (Aus) Australian National Team 15 pts 2 Masamichi Yamamoto (Jpn) Shimano Racing 9 3 Stefano Guerrini (Ita) Team Nippo 8 4 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Aisan-Ind Racing Team 6 5 Glen Chadwick (Aus) Giant Asia Racing Team 5 6 Takehiro Mizutani (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 4 7 Richard Moffatt (Aus) Australian National Team 1 Teams classification 1 Team Bridgestone Anchor 37.14.13 2 Shimano Racing 0.55 3 Australian National Team 5.02 4 Giant Asia Racing Team 6.20 5 Team Etxeondo 7.34 6 Team Nippo 8.31 7 Team Macandina-Kewa Rad-VC Gippingen 10.01 8 Kinan CCD 35.37 9 Aisan-Ind Racing Team 39.16 10 Miyata-Subaru Racing Team 40.27 11 VC Frankfurt Radteam-Brugelmann 1.00.01 12 Team Fuji Bikes 1.25.00 13 Hong Kong China 1.26.53 14 Jet Fuel Coffee 1.33.28 15 Sumita Ravanello Pearl Izumi 2.11.51
