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Tour of Japan - 2.2
Japan, May 20-27, 2007
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Stage 2 - May 21: Todaiji Temple - Yamazoe-mura Nunome, 146.2 km
Young Kazakh dominates the first hilly stage
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Valentin Iglinskiy (Kazakhstan National team) won the 2nd stage of the 11th Tour of Japan, beating Frenchman Aurelien Passeron (Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo) in the uphill sprint to the line. Iglinkskiy, in the blue points leader's jersey, added the green leader's jersey to his wardrobe, taking it off the shoulders of Japan's Takashi Miyazawa (Nippo corporation-Meitan Hompo-Equipe Asada).
Iglinskiy was part of a five man breakaway that went clear in the final circuits, and was able to distance the previous green jersey holder Miyazawa by five seconds. ''I stayed in the peloton all the time and I didn't think that I could win today, because a big group broke from the peloton. I didn't know I would win the stage until I crossed the finish line first,'' said the 23 year old Iglinskiy, whose older brother Maxim races for the ProTour squad Astana.
The win was important for the Kazakh team, several riders of which came from the former Asian Continental Team Capec, which lost its title sponsor in February when Capec did not renew. Team Manager Vladimir Remyga is looking for the new sponsor for the next season, and the win will be a good bargaining chip for the Kazakh team. Although it will be difficult for Iglinskiy to keep the leader's jersey until the final stage in Tokyo, he said, ''I want to win one more stage, but I will not keep the green jersey because I'm weak in time trial. So, I'll try to keep my blue point jersey.''
How it unfolded
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94 riders started in front of the Todaiji Temple under the clear sky. The peloton was still all together at the first lap on the Nunome Dam circuit. Akira Kakinuma (Team Miyata) and Ysutaka Tashiro (Team Bridgestone Anchor) attacked from the peloton at 11 laps to go, but the advantage was kept to less than 1 minutes by the peloton.
With eight laps to go, nine riders including Kam Po Wong (Hong Kong Pro Cycling), Arexandr Dyachenko (Kazakhstan National Team), Shinichi Fukushima and Yukiya Arashiro (Nippo corporation-Meitan Hompo-Equipe Asadaand), Taiji Nishitani (Aisan Racing Team), Andrea Rossi (Acqua & Sapone-Caffe Mokambo) jumped up from the peloton and joined the two Japanese. The break had a lead of around 30 seconds to the Skil-Shimano led peloton.
Fukushima attacked the breakaway with five laps remaining and built up a ten second lead before Dyachenko, Nishitani and Arashiro joined him at the final hill with three laps to go. The Acqua & Sapone riders Aurelien Passeron and Francesco Di Paolo accelerated and caught them on the final laps. The French sprinter missed out on the sprint in stage one when he had chain trouble, and looked to be well on his way to a win when he took the lead at 300 to go, but Iglinskiy was on his wheel and jumped around just before the line to take the win.
Photography
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Images by Miwako Sasaki
- Smile for the camera! Acqua e Spone riders visit the Todaiji Temple before the start.
- Overnight leader Takashi Miyazawa (Nippo-Meitan Hompo-Asada) waits for the start in front of Todaiji Temple.
- Valentin Iglinskiy (left) and Alexandr Dymovskikh sitting in front of Todaiji Temple.
- The second stage of the Tour of Japan starts at Todaiji Temple, a very old building in Nara.
- Takashi Miyazawa (Nippo-Meitan Hompo-Asada) and Valentin Iglinskiy (Kazakhstan National team).
- Andrea Rossi (Acqua e Sapone-Caffe Mokambo) gives a water bottle to a Japanese boy.
- The peloton rides in the Nara country side.
- Shinichi Fukushima (Nippo-Meitan Hompo-Asada) leads a break of 12 riders.
- Taiji Nishitani (Aisan Racing Team) leads the break.
- Valentin Iglinskiy (Kazakhstan National Team) stayed in the peloton during Stage 2.
- Australian Cameron Meyer (South Australia.com-AIS) tries to chase the break with Japanese rider Tomoya Kano (Skil-Shimano).
- Riders need a lot of water bottles on the hot day.
- Valentin Iglinskiy (Kazakhstan National team) beats Aurelien Passeron (Acqua e Sapone-Caffe Mokambo) at the finish line.
- 'I really won the stage...?' Valentin Iglinskiy (Kazakhstan National team) just after the finish.
- The stage winner Valentin Iglinskiy (Kazakhstan National Team).
- Hong Kong Kam Po Wong (Hong Kong) receives the red mountain jersey from the priest of Todaiji Temple.
- New race leader Valentin Iglinskiy (Kazakhstan National team).
Results
1 Valentin Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 3.44.12 2 Aurélien Passeron (Fra) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 3 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Myata - Subaru Racing Team 4 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 5 Francesco Di Paolo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 6 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 0.05 7 Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 8 Yoshinori Iino (Jpn) Pearlizumi Sumita Ravanello 0.09 9 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 10 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Skil - Shimano 11 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 12 Miyataka Shimizu (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 13 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 14 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 15 Thijs Zonneveld (Ned) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 16 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 17 Chris Froome (Ken) Team Konica Minolta 18 Yusuke Hatanaka (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 19 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 20 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 0.16 21 Yoshiyuki Abe (Jpn) Skil - Shimano 22 Timo Honstein (Ger) Team Sparkasse 23 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Skil - Shimano 24 Gang Xu (Chn) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 0.21 25 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 26 Yasutaka Tashiro (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 27 Takumi Beppu (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team 28 Nariyuki Masuda (Jpn) Myata - Subaru Racing Team 29 Keita Iwashima (Jpn) Nalsima Frend 30 Francesco Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 31 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 32 Shinpei Fukuda (Jpn) Myata - Subaru Racing Team 33 Makoto Nakamura (Jpn) Myata - Subaru Racing Team 34 Kazuyuki Manabe (Jpn) Team JBCF 35 Mitsunari Mitaki (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 36 Aleksey Lyalko (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 37 Jumpei Murakami (Jpn) Team JBCF 38 Masanari Komuro (Jpn) Team JBCF 39 Herman Fouche (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 40 Shinya Oba (Jpn) Team JBCF 41 Naoki Mukaigawa (Jpn) Matrix Powertag 0.35 42 William Ford (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS 0.37 43 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) Matrix Powertag 0.39 44 Jonas Owczarek (Ger) Team Sparkasse 0.43 45 Hisanori Akiyama (Jpn) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 46 Daisuke Hioki (Jpn) Matrix Powertag 0.51 47 Norihide Murayama (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 1.00 48 Robin Reid (NZl) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 1.03 49 René Schild (Ger) Team Sparkasse 1.05 50 Yasuhiro Nito (Jpn) Nalsima Frend 1.08 51 Andrea Rossi (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 1.10 52 Ho Ting Kwok (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 53 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team 1.15 54 Ikki Yoneyama (Jpn) Pearlizumi Sumita Ravanello 55 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 56 Yuzuru Suzuki (Jpn) Myata - Subaru Racing Team 1.22 57 Kazunari Asano (Jpn) Pearlizumi Sumita Ravanello 1.32 58 Akira Kakinuma (Jpn) Myata - Subaru Racing Team 1.40 59 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 1.53 60 Yosuke Kojima (Jpn) Team JBCF 61 Masaru Fukuhara (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 62 Kaoru Ouchi (Jpn) Skil - Shimano 63 Christof Van Heerden (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 64 Kazuhiro Mori (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team 2.29 65 Ken Hashikawa (Jpn) Matrix Powertag 5.52 66 Sean Finning (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS 67 Jay Thompson (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 7.08 68 Tiaan Kannemeyer (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 69 Dennis Van Niekerk (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 70 Kaoru Obata (Jpn) Nalsima Frend 7.47 71 Yoshimitsu Tsuji (Jpn) Matrix Powertag 72 Hideya Akiyama (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team 7.57 73 Kenichi Suzuki (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team 74 Christian Lademann (Ger) Team Sparkasse 8.22 75 Takeaki Ayabe (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team 8.28 76 Cameron Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS 11.47 77 Hideo Yoshida (Jpn) Nalsima Frend 13.34 DNF Arthur Ayers (Can) Pearlizumi Sumita Ravanello DNF Hitoshi Urushizawa (Jpn) Team JBCF DNF Masamichi Yamamoto (Jpn) Skil - Shimano DNF Tomoya Sano (Jpn) Matrix Powertag DNF Sergei Kudenisov (Rus) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team DNF Zakkari Dempster (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS DNF Wang Yip Tang (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling DNF Takamitu Tsuji (Jpn) Skil - Shimano DNF Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka (Jpn) Pearlizumi Sumita Ravanello DNF Keisuke Kamata (Jpn) Pearlizumi Sumita Ravanello DNF Miles Olman (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS DNF Keita Onishi (Jpn) Nalsima Frend DNF Christoph Schweizer (Ger) Team Sparkasse DNF Kin San Wu (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling DNF Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh (Mgl) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team DNF Yasuyuki Toi (Jpn) Nalsima Frend DNS Stefan Loeffler (Ger) Team Sparkasse General classification after Stage 2 1 Valentin Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 6.43.23 2 Aurélien Passeron (Fra) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 0.10 3 Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 0.11 4 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Myata - Subaru Racing Team 0.12 5 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 0.16 6 Francesco Di Paolo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 7 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 0.19 8 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 0.21 9 Yoshinori Iino (Jpn) Pearlizumi Sumita Ravanello 0.25 10 Yusuke Hatanaka (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 11 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 12 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 13 Miyataka Shimizu (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 14 Thijs Zonneveld (Ned) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 15 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Skil - Shimano 16 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 17 Andrea Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 18 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 19 Chris Froome (Ken) Team Konica Minolta 20 Herman Fouche (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 0.31 21 Yoshiyuki Abe (Jpn) Skil - Shimano 0.32 22 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 23 Timo Honstein (Ger) Team Sparkasse 24 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Skil - Shimano 25 Shinpei Fukuda (Jpn) Myata - Subaru Racing Team 0.34 26 Keita Iwashima (Jpn) Nalsima Frend 0.37 27 Francesco Masciarelli (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 28 Shinya Oba (Jpn) Team JBCF 29 Nariyuki Masuda (Jpn) Myata - Subaru Racing Team 30 Masanari Komuro (Jpn) Team JBCF 31 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 32 Jumpei Murakami (Jpn) Team JBCF 33 Gang Xu (Chn) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 34 Aleksey Lyalko (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 35 Kazuyuki Manabe (Jpn) Team JBCF 36 Mitsunari Mitaki (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 37 Makoto Nakamura (Jpn) Myata - Subaru Racing Team 38 Yasutaka Tashiro (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 39 Kazuya Okazaki (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 40 Takumi Beppu (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team 41 Naoki Mukaigawa (Jpn) Matrix Powertag 0.51 42 William Ford (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS 0.53 43 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) Matrix Powertag 0.54 44 Jonas Owczarek (Ger) Team Sparkasse 0.59 45 Hisanori Akiyama (Jpn) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 46 Daisuke Hioki (Jpn) Matrix Powertag 1.07 47 Norihide Murayama (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 1.16 48 Robin Reid (NZl) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 1.19 49 René Schild (Ger) Team Sparkasse 1.21 50 Yasuhiro Nito (Jpn) Nalsima Frend 1.24 51 Ho Ting Kwok (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 1.26 52 Andrea Rossi (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 53 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team 1.31 54 Ikki Yoneyama (Jpn) Pearlizumi Sumita Ravanello 55 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 56 Yuzuru Suzuki (Jpn) Myata - Subaru Racing Team 1.38 57 Kazunari Asano (Jpn) Pearlizumi Sumita Ravanello 1.48 58 Akira Kakinuma (Jpn) Myata - Subaru Racing Team 1.56 59 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 2.09 60 Kaoru Ouchi (Jpn) Skil - Shimano 61 Christof Van Heerden (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 62 Masaru Fukuhara (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 63 Yosuke Kojima (Jpn) Team JBCF 64 Kazuhiro Mori (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team 2.45 65 Ken Hashikawa (Jpn) Matrix Powertag 6.08 66 Sean Finning (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS 67 Dennis Van Niekerk (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 7.24 68 Jay Thompson (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 69 Tiaan Kannemeyer (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 70 Yoshimitsu Tsuji (Jpn) Matrix Powertag 8.03 71 Kaoru Obata (Jpn) Nalsima Frend 72 Hideya Akiyama (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team 8.13 73 Kenichi Suzuki (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team 74 Christian Lademann (Ger) Team Sparkasse 8.38 75 Takeaki Ayabe (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team 8.44 76 Cameron Meyer (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS 12.03 77 Hideo Yoshida (Jpn) Nalsima Frend 13.50 78 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS 33.44 79 Masamichi Yamamoto (Jpn) Skil - Shimano 33.50 80 Sergei Kudenisov (Rus) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 81 Miles Olman (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS 82 Keita Onishi (Jpn) Nalsima Frend 83 Wang Yip Tang (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 84 Jamsran Ulzii-Orshikh (Mgl) Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 85 Kin San Wu (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 86 Tomoya Sano (Jpn) Matrix Powertag 87 Arthur Ayers (Can) Pearlizumi Sumita Ravanello 88 Keisuke Kamata (Jpn) Pearlizumi Sumita Ravanello 89 Hitoshi Urushizawa (Jpn) Team JBCF 90 Takamitu Tsuji (Jpn) Skil - Shimano 91 Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka (Jpn) Pearlizumi Sumita Ravanello 92 Christoph Schweizer (Ger) Team Sparkasse Points classification 1 Valentin Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 29 pts 2 Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 19 3 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 14 4 Zakkari Dempster (Aus) South Australia.com - AIS 13 5 Aurélien Passeron (Fra) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 12 6 Herman Fouche (RSA) Team Konica Minolta 10 7 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Myata - Subaru Racing Team 10 8 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 10 9 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) Matrix Powertag 10 10 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 8 11 Francesco Di Paolo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 6 12 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 6 13 Shinpei Fukuda (Jpn) Myata - Subaru Racing Team 5 14 Yoshinori Iino (Jpn) Pearlizumi Sumita Ravanello 3 15 Jonas Owczarek (Ger) Team Sparkasse 3 16 Takeaki Ayabe (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team 2 17 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Skil - Shimano 1 18 Keita Iwashima (Jpn) Nalsima Frend 1 Mountains classification 1 Kam-Po Wong (HKg) Hong Kong Pro Cycling 8 pts 2 Yasutaka Tashiro (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 8 3 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Nippo Corporation - Meitan Honpo Co LTD - Asada 5 4 Akira Kakinuma (Jpn) Myata - Subaru Racing Team 3 5 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Myata - Subaru Racing Team 2 6 Alessandro Donati (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 2 7 Francesco Di Paolo (Ita) Acqua & Sapone - Caffe Mokambo 2 Team classification 1 Acqua E Sapone-Caffe' Mokambo 20.10.57 2 Kazakhstan National Team 0.18 3 Nippo Corporation-Meitan Hompo-Equipeasada 0.23 4 Skil-Shimano 0.41 5 Team Miyata 0.42 6 Hong Kong Pro Cycling 0.47 7 Team Bridgestone Anchor 0.51 8 Team Jbcf 1.03 9 Discovery Channel Marco Polo Team 1.55 10 Team Sparkasse 2.04 11 Matrix Powertag 2.05 12 Team Konica Minolta 2.23 13 Pearlizumi Sumita Ravanello 2.56 14 Aisan Racing Team 4.05 15 Nalsima Frend 9.16 16 South Australia.Com-Ais 18.16
