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Tour of South China Sea - 2.2
Hong Kong, December 25-30, 2006
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Stage 2 - December 26: Shenzhen Stage, 88 km
Ponomarev unsettles Asian control
By Steve Thomas in Shenzhen
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A typically mild and sunny day greeted the riders for the start of stage 2 of this year's Tour of South China Sea; an 88-kilometre circuit race around the suburbs of Shenzhen, China's original Special Economic Zone, and the richest city in the whole country.
Today's circuit was a fast and pretty straightforward 4.4 km semi circle loop, with nothing much in the way to slow things down and aid breakaway groups; so all looked set for another bunch finish.
As the racing got underway the pace soon wound up, and it was a constant fast moving and attacking stage, and until the second half of the race it looked very unlikely that anyone would stay away. Pocari Sweat Hong Kong in superbly dominant form; they were defending and controlling the race from the front with a constant high speed throughout the race. But as the day started to take it's toll a small group went clear, and opened quite a gap, but with just a handful of laps to go the hammer was well and truly put down and they were reeled back in.
A slight lull in the pace allowed a five-man break to go clear with three laps to go. For two whole laps they were left dangling off the front, nobody willing to commit to reel them in and allow another group to escape within the final minutes of the stage; a tactic which did not pan out for the Pocari Sweat team.
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Russian Dynamo Moscow team manager Gleb Groysmann explained, "There are 12 Hong Kong riders between their two teams, and they work together so strongly to control things, and then there is just us and the Danes, so we thought it would be a sprint again, but [we] just had one rider in the break in case. With 2 km to go I called him on the radio to tell him the bunch were not chasing and to ride to the line."
And that's exactly what happened, in the final kilometre the remaining three riders in the break held on to a narrow lead, with Konstantin Ponomarev of Dynamo Moscow powering ahead for a clear victory.
With two back-to-back stage victories, and Ponomarev taking the leader's jersey from his team mate and stage one winner Andrey Klyulev, things look good for the team. But Pocari Sweat will be hot on the Dynamo's heels and Wong Kam Po desperate for victory you can rest assured the team will not have an easy ride.
Photography
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Images by Steve Thomas
- Open, almost, yes ... podium girls
- Pocari Sweat get wired
- On reflection
- AIS U23 NSW team talk
- Andrey Klyuev
- Kam Po Wong start line problems
- Yellow jersey waiting to go
- An early break
- Start - Finish banner for stage 2
- Backside of the bunch in stage 2
- Teammates working hard
- Wong Kap Po calling in the the break
- stage 2 in action
- red all the way in stage 2
- stage 1 finale
- Ponomarev takes stage 2
Images by T.S. Tang
- Andrey Kluev of ODM Russia Yellow jersey holder from the stage 1 at the start
- Another breakaway at the last few laps
- Behind the Russian rider Stefan needs to discuss what is going on....
- Chau Wai Man of CSS
- Clear win!! Konstantin Ponomarev of ODM Russia is the champion of stage 2
- David Sommerville of Champion System team is signing on for the stage 2 of Tour of South China Sea
- Everyone is waiting for a move...
- First breakaway group...
- Russian rider leads out for another attack!!
- HK team is finally chasing...
- Here we go the start of Tour of South China Sea stage 2
- Konstantin Ponomarev ODM Russia - General Classification Yellow jersey
- Konstantin Ponomarev of ODM Russia calling for help
- Last attack on the second last lap of the race
- It is Thomas again..
- Moving on riders trying to push closer to the leading group
- Peloton stretching out on a long course
- Switzerland team rider is hammering to catch the 3 leading riders...
- Riders waiting at the starting area....
- Stefan Rothe in the only German rider in the Champion System team.
- Steinweg of CSS in the escape group of 3 over 6 laps. Great work!
- Sumi Reona Japan - General Classification by points Green jersey
- The peloton
- Stefan (CSS) is trying to attack together with a few riders...
- Thomas Benclvengo (CSS) recovered from his crash yesterday.... is charging up in the front pack.
- Winners of the stage 2 winner - Konstantin (ODM Russia), second - Prajak Mahawong (SBA Thailand), Jamsran Ulzii-Orshkih (MPC)
- Wong Kam Po (HKG) the Best Greater China Riders Blue jersey winner
Results
1 Konstantin Ponomarev (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 1.53.49 2 Prajak Mahawong (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling 3 Jamsran Ulzii-orshkih (Mgl) Marco Polo Cycling Team 4 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 0.04 5 Christopher J. Jory (Aus) Australian U23 0.06 6 Andrey Klyuev (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 7 Sergey Kudentsov (Rus) Marco Polo Cycling Team 8 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Japan National Team 9 Morten Christiansen (Den) Glud & Marstrand Horsens 10 Long Jin (Chn) China 11 Alexey Shmidt (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 12 Reona Sumi (Jpn) Japan National Team 13 Fuyu Li (Chn) Marco Polo Cycling Team 14 Kim Marius K. Nielsen (Den) Glud & Marstrand Horsens 15 Shijie Yu (Chn) Peoples' Liberation Army 16 Po Hung Wu (Tpe) Team Ckt 17 Nederlof Lex (Ned) Cms-cycling.Tv 18 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 19 Yue Tu (Chn) Peoples' Liberation Army 20 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) Cms-cycling.Tv 21 David John Tonk (GBr) Cms-cycling.Tv 22 Rune Udby (Den) Glud & Marstrand Horsens 23 Bo Liu (Chn) Peoples' Liberation Army 24 Cheng Guang Yu (Chn) Liaoning Team 25 Lei Sun (Chn) Hong Kong & Shanghai Sports Institute 26 Jared Bunde (USA) Champion System Sommerville Sports 27 Norihide Murayama. (Jpn) Japan National Team 28 Li Zhang (Chn) Guangdong 29 Wang Yip Tang (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 30 Shuaijun Chang (Chn) Macau-beijing Selection 31 Yinhao Cui (Chn) Hong Kong & Shanghai Sports Institute 32 Christopher Y. Young (Aus) Australian U23 33 Siu Wai Ko (HKg) Hong Kong & Shanghai Sports Institute 34 Fumiya Azuhata (Jpn) Japan National Team 35 Mitchell P. Pearson (Aus) Australian U23 36 Jing Wei Jiang (Chn) Liaoning Team 37 Song Gao (Chn) Liaoning Team 38 Que Zhong (Chn) Guangdong 39 Yung Hua Cheng (Tpe) Team Ckt 40 Zhao Yu Zeng (Chn) Liaoning Team 41 Alexander A. Mattmann (Swi) Zurich Hirslanden - Vc 42 Kau Wai Yu (HKg) Cms-cycling.Tv 43 Sea Keong Loh (Mas) Marco Polo Cycling Team 44 Yongsheng Yan (Chn) Hong Kong & Shanghai Sports Institute 45 Xu Fang (Chn) China 46 Lok Kei So (HKg) Bici Racing 47 Wenlong Zhang (Chn) Peoples' Liberation Army 48 Gangzhao Guo (Chn) Cyclist Club Racing Force 49 Tong Yu (Chn) Macau-beijing Selection 50 Hsin Hua Huang (Tpe) Team Ckt 51 Fabian Krienbühl (Swi) Zurich - Hirslanden - Vc 52 Gang Xu (Chn) Hong Kong & Shanghai Sports Institute 53 Ching Man Chung (HKg) Bici Racing 54 Ting Pong Lam (HKg) Bici Racing 55 Jacob J. Nielsen (Den) Glud & Marstrand Horsens 56 Qiang Zhang (Chn) Macau-beijing Selection 57 Mun Po Choi (HKg) Cyclist Club Racing Force 58 Shing Lam Ip (HKg) Bici Racing 59 Rongxi Zou (Chn) China 60 Peng Liu (Chn) Peoples' Liberation Army 61 Heng Wa Choi (Mac) Macau-beijing Selection 62 Haijun Ma (Chn) China 63 King Man Tsui (HKg) Cyclist Club Racing Force 64 Brendan Brooks (Aus) Australian U23 65 Chi Yin Leung (HKg) Marco Polo Cycling Team 66 Valery Valynin (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 67 Alexander Khatuntsev (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 68 Yu Hui Wei (Chn) Liaoning Team 69 Thanawat Samana (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling 70 Korakogh Rittiman (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling 71 Sommerville David (USA) Champion System Sommerville Sports 72 Hsin Hsien Lee (Tpe) Team Ckt 73 Chung Yin Kwan (Mac) Macau-beijing Selection 74 Stefan Steinweg (Ger) Zurich - Hirslanden - Vc 75 Zeyong Yuan (Chn) Peoples' Liberation Army 76 Yandong Xing (Chn) Marco Polo Cycling Team 77 Laurent Arn (Swi) Zurich - Hirslanden - Vc 78 Kam Po Wong (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 79 Jiajie Jang (Chn) Guangdong 80 Akyiyama Hisanori (Jpn) Cyclist Club Racing Force 81 Christian Rocha (Swi) Zurich - Hirslanden - Vc 82 Luke Cridland (Aus) Australian U23 83 Thomas Bencivengo (USA) Champion System Sommerville Sports 84 Michael Berling (Den) Glud & Marstrand Horsens 85 Wai Man Chau (HKg) Champion System Sommerville Sports 86 Pengda Jiao (Chn) China 87 Kin San Wu (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 88 Mitchell C. Chapman (Aus) Australian U23 89 Chung Yin Cheng (HKg) Cyclist Club Racing Force 90 Komsan Karnbanchee (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling 91 Stefan Rothe (Ger) Champion System Sommerville Sports 92 Chak Shing Cheng (HKg) Hong Kong & Shanghai Sports Institute 93 Usui Takamasa (Jpn) Cms-cycling.Tv 94 King Wai Cheung (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 95 Keng Hsien Chen (Tpe) Team Ckt 96 David Jansen (Swi) Zurich - Hirslanden - Vc 97 Xiang Dong (Chn) Guangdong 98 Man Chung Ip (HKg) Bici Racing 99 Liang Zhang (Chn) China 100 Pornthep Pinkeaw (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling 101 Shi Qiang Sun (Chn) Liaoning Team 102 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 103 Shuhai Song (Chn) Guangdong 0.16 104 Man Yiu Cheung (HKg) Bici Racing 0.28 105 Ching Yin Lemuel Lau (HKg) Champion System Sommerville Sports 106 Huikuo Zhu (Chn) Macau-beijing Selection 107 Kam Fai Lau (HKg) Cms-cycling.Tv 0.34 108 Kuo Lung Liao (Tpe) Team Ckt 1.10 109 Kin Tik So (HKg) Cyclist Club Racing Force 6.55 110 Takaaki Ota (Jpn) Japan National Team 12.40 110 Takumi Shirakawa (Jpn) Japan National Team Stage team classification 1 Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 5.41.39 2 Marco Polo Cycling Team 3 Siam Bara Cycling 4 Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 0.04 5 Glud & Marstrand Horsens 0.06 6 Japan National Team 7 Peoples' Liberation Army 8 Cms-cycling.Tv 9 Australian U23 10 Hong Kong & Shanghai Sports Institute 11 Liaoning Team 12 Team Ckt 13 China 14 Macau-beijing Selection 15 Guangdong 16 Bici Racing 17 Zurich - Hirslanden - Vc 18 Cyclist Club Racing Force 19 Champion System Sommerville Sports General classification (Yellow jersey) 1 Konstantin Ponomarev (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 3.44.21 2 Prajak Mahawong (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling 0.04 3 Andrey Klyuev (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 0.06 4 Jamsran Ulzii-orshkih (Mgl) Marco Polo Cycling Team 5 Kam Po Wong (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 0.10 6 Chi Yin Leung (HKg) Marco Polo Cycling Team 0.12 7 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 0.14 8 Alexey Shmidt (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 0.16 9 Sergey Kudentsov (Rus) Marco Polo Cycling Team 10 Morten Christiansen (Den) Glud & Marstrand Horsens 11 Reona Sumi (Jpn) Japan National Team 12 Fuyu Li (Chn) Marco Polo Cycling Team 13 Kim Marius K. Nielsen (Den) Glud & Marstrand Horsens 14 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) Cms-cycling.Tv 15 Po Hung Wu (Tpe) Team Ckt 16 Nederlof Lex (Ned) Cms-cycling.Tv 17 David John Tonk (GBr) Cms-cycling.Tv 18 Long Jin (Chn) China 19 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 20 Christopher J. Jory (Aus) Australian U23 21 Bo Liu (Chn) Peoples' Liberation Army 22 Rune Udby (Den) Glud & Marstrand Horsens 23 Wang Yip Tang (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 24 Lei Sun (Chn) Hong Kong & Shanghai Sports Institute 25 Yue Tu (Chn) Peoples' Liberation Army 26 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Japan National Team 27 Shijie Yu (Chn) Peoples' Liberation Army 28 Yinhao Cui (Chn) Hong Kong & Shanghai Sports Institute 29 Shuaijun Chang (Chn) Macau-beijing Selection 30 Fumiya Azuhata (Jpn) Japan National Team 31 Li Zhang (Chn) Guangdong 32 Rongxi Zou (Chn) China 33 Yung Hua Cheng (Tpe) Team Ckt 34 Mitchell P. Pearson (Aus) Australian U23 35 Jared Bunde (USA) Champion System Sommerville Sports 36 Xu Fang (Chn) China 37 Norihide Murayama. (Jpn) Japan National Team 38 Siu Wai Ko (HKg) Hong Kong & Shanghai Sports Institute 39 Valery Valynin (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 40 Sea Keong Loh (Mas) Marco Polo Cycling Team 41 Tong Yu (Chn) Macau-beijing Selection 42 Cheng Guang Yu (Chn) Liaoning Team 43 Jacob J. Nielsen (Den) Glud & Marstrand Horsens 44 Alexander Khatuntsev (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 45 Haijun Ma (Chn) China 46 Wenlong Zhang (Chn) Peoples' Liberation Army 47 Gangzhao Guo (Chn) Cyclist Club Racing Force 48 Song Gao (Chn) Liaoning Team 49 Thanawat Samana (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling 50 Kin San Wu (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 51 Gang Xu (Chn) Hong Kong & Shanghai Sports Institute 52 Luke Cridland (Aus) Australian U23 53 Ching Man Chung (HKg) Bici Racing 54 Zhao Yu Zeng (Chn) Liaoning Team 55 Michael Berling (Den) Glud & Marstrand Horsens 56 Keng Hsien Chen (Tpe) Team Ckt 57 Christopher Y. Young (Aus) Australian U23 58 Fabian Krienbühl (Swi) Zurich - Hirslanden - Vc 59 Peng Liu (Chn) Peoples' Liberation Army 60 Alexander A. Mattmann (Swi) Zurich - Hirslanden - Vc 61 Stefan Steinweg (Ger) Zurich - Hirslanden - Vc 62 Kau Wai Yu (HKg) Cms-cycling.Tv 63 Mitchell C. Chapman (Aus) Australian U23 64 Brendan Brooks (Aus) Australian U23 65 Christian Rocha (Swi) Zurich - Hirslanden - Vc 66 Laurent Arn (Swi) Zurich - Hirslanden - Vc 67 Yandong Xing (Chn) Marco Polo Cycling Team 68 Sommerville David (USA) Champion System Sommerville Sports 69 Heng Wa Choi (Mac) Macau-beijing Selection 70 Yu Hui Wei (Chn) Liaoning Team 71 Akyiyama Hisanori (Jpn) Cyclist Club Racing Force 72 Pengda Jiao (Chn) China 73 Chak Shing Cheng (HKg) Hong Kong & Shanghai Sports Institute 74 Liang Zhang (Chn) China 75 Chung Yin Kwan (Mac) Macau-beijing Selection 76 Wai Man Chau (HKg) Champion System Sommerville Sports 77 Pornthep Pinkeaw (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling 78 Komsan Karnbanchee (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling 79 Thomas Bencivengo (USA) Champion System Sommerville Sports 80 David Jansen (Swi) Zurich - Hirslanden - Vc 81 Shi Qiang Sun (Chn) Liaoning Team 82 Sergey Kolesnikov (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 83 King Wai Cheung (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 84 Shuhai Song (Chn) Guangdong 0.26 85 Hsin Hsien Lee (Tpe) Team Ckt 0.44 86 Stefan Rothe (Ger) Champion System Sommerville Sports 0.49 87 Hsin Hua Huang (Tpe) Team Ckt 0.54 88 Jing Wei Jiang (Chn) Liaoning Team 6.58 89 Que Zhong (Chn) Guangdong 90 Yongsheng Yan (Chn) Hong Kong & Shanghai Sports Institute 91 Shing Lam Ip (HKg) Bici Racing 92 Ting Pong Lam (HKg) Bici Racing 93 Zeyong Yuan (Chn) Peoples' Liberation Army 94 Korakogh Rittiman (Tha) Siam Bara Cycling 95 Chung Yin Cheng (HKg) Cyclist Club Racing Force 96 Usui Takamasa (Jpn) Cms-cycling.Tv 97 Ching Yin Lemuel Lau (HKg) Champion System Sommerville Sports 7.20 98 Man Yiu Cheung (HKg) Bici Racing 99 Kuo Lung Liao (Tpe) Team Ckt 8.02 100 Lok Kei So (HKg) Bici Racing 10.13 101 Qiang Zhang (Chn) Macau-beijing Selection 102 King Man Tsui (HKg) Cyclist Club Racing Force 103 Jiajie Jang (Chn) Guangdong 104 Xiang Dong (Chn) Guangdong 105 Takaaki Ota (Jpn) Japan National Team 12.50 106 Takumi Shirakawa (Jpn) Japan National Team 107 Mun Po Choi (HKg) Cyclist Club Racing Force 13.29 108 Man Chung Ip (HKg) Bici Racing 109 Huikuo Zhu (Chn) Macau-beijing Selection 13.51 110 Kam Fai Lau (HKg) Cms-cycling.Tv 13.57 111 Kin Tik So (HKg) Cyclist Club Racing Force 20.18 Young rider classification (Pink jersey) 1 Andrey Klyuev (Rus) Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 3.44.27 2 Reona Sumi (Jpn) Japan National Team 0.10 3 Kim Marius K. Nielsen (Den) Glud & Marstrand Horsens 4 Po Hung Wu (Tpe) Team Ckt 5 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 6 Christopher J. Jory (Aus) Australian U23 7 Bo Liu (Chn) Peoples' Liberation Army 8 Wang Yip Tang (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 9 Lei Sun (Chn) Hong Kong & Shanghai Sports Institute 10 Shijie Yu (Chn) Peoples' Liberation Army Greater China riders classification (Blue jersey) 1 Kam Po Wong (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 3.44.31 2 Chi Yin Leung (HKg) Marco Polo Cycling Team 0.02 3 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 0.04 4 Fuyu Li (Chn) Marco Polo Cycling Team 0.06 5 Po Hung Wu (Tpe) Team Ckt 6 Long Jin (Chn) China 7 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 8 Bo Liu (Chn) Peoples' Liberation Army 9 Wang Yip Tang (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 10 Lei Sun (Chn) Hong Kong & Shanghai Sports Institute Team classification 1 Marco Polo Cycling Team 11.13.45 2 Omnibike Dynamo Moscow 3 Siam Bara Cycling 4 Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 0.04 5 Cms-cycling.Tv 0.06 6 Glud & Marstrand Horsens 7 Japan National Team 8 Team Ckt 9 Peoples' Liberation Army 10 China 11 Australian U23 12 Hong Kong & Shanghai Sports Institute 13 Liaoning Team 14 Macau-beijing Selection 15 Zurich - Hirslanden - Vc 16 Champion System Sommerville Sports 17 Guangdong 6.48 18 Cyclist Club Racing Force 19 Bici Racing 13.29
