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Tour of Hainan - 2.1 - 2.1
China, November 11-19, 2008
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Stage 8 - November 19: Wuzhishan - Sanya, 102.4 km
Shpilevskiy wipes the table clean
By Steve Thomas
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There is simply no stopping speedy Russian Boris Shpilevskiy, who sprinted home at the head of a fast moving pack to take today's final stage of the Tour of Hainan, and to also secure the honour of taking the overall GC title back home to Russia.
The final stage between Wuzhisan and Sanya City was relatively short, covering just 102 kilometres, but the pace for the final day remained as hot as it had right through the race. This was largely thanks to the controlling impetus of the strong Russian team, which had the tiring task of defending the yellow jersey since Shpilevskiy took the first opening road stage of the tour a week ago in Xinglong.
The fast sprinting Russian started the race by taking second in the prologue time trial, just 21 hundredths of a second behind Kazakh rider Dimitry Grudzev. He then went on to take six out of eight road stages, all but one in bunch finishes. In the stage seven queen stage he slipped off the front with Peter Herzig (Panasonic) to take the win. He demonstrated that there is far more than just a sprinter wrapped in the leader's yellow jersey.
It would be fair to say that overall Shpilevskiy has been in a class of his own in this race, and nobody had an answer to his power or his fast finish.
One final sprint
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The final stage started off with a very early third category climb (just six km into the stage), and then took in another third category climb after 53 km, but they were not going to do much to impact the final stage result or GC.
The Russians worked like clockwork in the final stages of the race, keeping things together and lining the sprint up perfectly for their team leader. There was going to be no playing safe, or sharing of the honours as far as the Russians were concerned, and Shpilevskiy delivered the goods on time, narrowly beating Jelly Belly rival Brad Huff to the line (Huff is the only other rider to win road stages – taking two wins).
In taking the stage victory Shpilevskiy simply added to his race winning margin, whilst behind him most of the other GC contenders finished safely in the pack, making for very little change to the final overall classification.
Photography
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Images by Song Guoqiang/Tour of Hainan
- The locals put on quite a show.
- The cheerleaders got everyone ready for the final stage.
- And even the racers welcomed the different warm-up.
- Ruslan Tleubayev asks for another drink
- The bunch grinds along on the highway
- The feed zone contained natural bars in China.
- The Russians led the way in the final stage.
- Poker face Boris Shpilevsky didn't let anything happen on the final stage that would have compromised his victory.
- The fierce sprint for the line on the final stage.
- Shpilevsky was a dominant force in the sprints throughout the race.
- The winning Russian team lines up for the memory lane shots.
- The fastest bikes in the sprints was often that of Boris Shpilevsky.
- The champagne of victory tastes the best.
- Shpilevsky took the overall title
- Taste it? What the heck? Off it goes!
- Instead, Shpilevsky tasted the trophy and found out it wasn't so bad either.
- The final podium winners with their checks.
Images by Charlie Issendorf
- Ukraine's Oleksandr Polyvoda rides solo.
- Workers watch stage eight of the Tour of Hainan pass.
- Everyone turned out to see the riders make their way through the final stage.
- The Tour of Hainan peloton.
- Boris Shpilevsky (Russian National Team) takes his sixth stage win on the final day of the Tour of Hainan.
- China puts on a warm welcome for the international peloton.
- Bradley Huff (Jelly Belly) on the podium after finishing second in the final stage of the Tour of Hainan.
- Valentin Iglinskiy (Kazakhstani National Team) claims the polka dot jersey of the best climber in the Tour of Hainan.
- Boris Shpilevsky (Russian National Team) on the podium as overall winner of the Tour of Hainan.
Results
1 Boris Shpilevskiy (Rus) Russian National Team 2.11.54 (46.398 km/h) 2 Bradley Huff (USA) Jelly Belly 3 Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn) Meitan Hompo GDR 4 Stefan Löffler (Ger) Giant Asia Racing Team 5 Philipp Mamos (Ger) Team Sparkasse 6 Dale Scarfe (Aus) Panasonic 7 Ahmad Haidar Anuawar (Mas) Malaysia 8 Daniel Kreutzfeldt (Den) Danish National Team 9 Blazej Janiaczyk (Pol) Polish National Team 10 Ruslan Tleubayev (Kaz) Kazakhstani National Team 11 Valentin Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstani National Team 12 Jin Long (Chn) Chinese National Team 13 Kuei Shiang Peng (Tpe) Giant Asia Racing Team 14 Xitao Ji (Chn) Chinese National Team 15 Yuri Metlushenko (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 16 Artem Timofeev (Rus) Polygon Sweet Nice 17 Mykhailo Kononenko (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 18 Petr Lechner (Cze) Arbö KTM Junkers 19 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Kazakhstani National Team 20 Erik Hoffmann (Ger) Giant Asia Racing Team 21 Martin Lollesgaard (Den) Danish National Team 22 Zainal Mohammed Nor Rizuaht (Mas) Malaysia 23 Guo Hui (Chn) Chinese National Team 24 Oleksandr Polyvoda (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 25 Kin San Wu (HKg) Hongta Hong Kong 26 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team Sparkasse 27 Bernard Van Ulden (USA) Jelly Belly 28 Oleksandr Nykolenko (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 29 Poiotr Osinski (Pol) Polish National Team 30 Christoph Springer (Ger) Cosmote Kastro 31 Stefan Poll (Aut) Arbö KTM Junkers 32 Volodymyr Starchyk (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 33 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Jelly Belly 34 David McCann (Irl) Giant Asia Racing Team 35 Kuan Hua Lai (Tpe) Chinese Taipei 36 Jan Barta (Cze) Arbö KTM Junkers 37 Ronald Yin Hon Yeung (HKg) Hongta Hong Kong 38 Lars Pria (Rom) Cosmote Kastro 39 Wojciech Dybel (Pol) Polish National Team 40 Amir Zargari (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical Team 41 Yevgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Kazakhstani National Team 42 Jai Crawford (Aus) Trek Marco Polo 43 Hannes Grundlinger (Aut) Arbö KTM Junkers 44 Herwin Jaya (Ina) Polygon Sweet Nice 45 Chun Kai Feng (Tpe) Chinese Taipei 46 Jacob Nielsen (Den) Danish National Team 47 Mariusz Witecki (Pol) Polish National Team 48 Fuyu Li (Chn) Trek Marco Polo 49 Alex Coutts (GBr) Giant Asia Racing Team 50 Jacek Morajko (Pol) Polish National Team 51 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Hongta Hong Kong 52 Anatoliy Pakhutsov (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 53 Nicholas Reistad (USA) Jelly Belly 54 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Meitan Hompo GDR 55 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Swiss National Team 56 Michael Christensen (Den) Danish National Team 57 Pawel Cieslik (Pol) Polish National Team 58 Masaaki Kikuchi (Jpn) Meitan Hompo GDR 59 Mateusz Taciak (Pol) Polish National Team 60 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical Team 61 Alexsandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Kazakhstani National Team 62 Hossein Jahanbanian (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical Team 63 Rongxi Zou (Chn) Chinese National Team 64 Sergiy Matveev (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 65 Hossein Askari (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical Team 66 Mehdi Faridi (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical Team 67 Peter John Herzig (Aus) Panasonic 68 Yan Dong Xing (Chn) Trek Marco Polo 69 Peter Andres (Swi) Swiss National Team 0.12 70 Benjamin Baumgartner (Swi) Swiss National Team 0.16 71 Baoqing Song (Chn) Chinese National Team 0.23 72 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) Russian National Team 0.27 73 Dirk Müller (Ger) Team Sparkasse 0.30 74 Richard Faltus (Cze) Team Sparkasse 75 Luke Cridland (Aus) Panasonic 76 Feng Han (Chn) Trek Marco Polo 77 Loic Muhlemann (Swi) Swiss National Team 0.32 78 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 0.37 79 Charles Xavier (Swi) Swiss National Team 80 Anton Afonin (Rus) Russian National Team 81 Hari Fitrianto (Ina) Polygon Sweet Nice 82 Fan Hsin Chu (Tpe) Chinese Taipei 83 Chris Jory (Aus) Panasonic 84 Sergey Renev (Kaz) Kazakhstani National Team 85 Timothy Guy (Aus) Panasonic 86 Miyataka Shimizu (Jpn) Meitan Hompo GDR 0.40 87 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Sparkasse 0.44 88 Jiri Skrobanek (Cze) Cosmote Kastro 0.54 89 Yilin Liu (Chn) Trek Marco Polo 1.07 90 Philip Nielsen (Den) Danish National Team 1.14 91 Evgeny Bakhin (Rus) Russian National Team 1.18 92 Cheng Ji (Chn) Chinese National Team 1.22 93 Igor Boev (Rus) Russian National Team 1.44 94 Vadim Maslennikov (Rus) Russian National Team 2.48 95 Matt Rice (Aus) Jelly Belly 2.59 96 Nariyuki Masuda (Jpn) Meitan Hompo GDR 3.56 97 Shuai Chun Chiang (Tpe) Chinese Taipei 8.53 98 Mohammed Zamri Saleh (Mas) Malaysia 11.17 99 Chi Shek Chui (HKg) Hongta Hong Kong 22.48 100 Vahid Ghaffari (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical Team 101 Valeriy Dmitriyev (Kaz) Kazakhstani National Team DNF Serguei Koudentsov (Rus) Trek Marco Polo DNF Sea Keong Loh (Mas) Trek Marco Polo DNF Jianhua Ji (Chn) Chinese National Team Final General classification 1 Boris Shpilevskiy (Rus) Russian National Team 29.57.04 2 David McCann (Irl) Giant Asia Racing 1.14 3 Blazej Janiaczyk (Pol) Polish National Team 1.26 4 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 1.32 5 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Jelly Belly 1.49 6 Jacek Morajko (Pol) Polish National Team 7 Amir Zargari (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical 1.59 8 Yevgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 2.03 9 Philipp Mamos (Ger) Team Sparkasse 2.11 10 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 2.29 11 Bernard Van Ulden (USA) Jelly Belly 2.51 12 Mateusz Taciak (Pol) Polish National Team 2.57 13 Alex Coutts (GBr) Giant Asia Racing 3.03 14 Michael Christensen (Den) Danish National Team 3.06 15 Mariusz Witecki (Pol) Polish National Team 3.22 16 Peter Herzig (Aus) Panasonic 3.46 17 Valentin Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 3.57 18 Jai Crawford (Aus) Trek Marco Polo 3.58 19 Jan Barta (Cze) Arbö KTM Junkers 4.01 20 Wojciech Dybel (Pol) Polish National Team 4.02 21 Erik Hoffmann (Nam) Giant Asia Racing 4.04 22 Ghader Mizbani (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical 4.10 23 Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn) Meitan Hompo GDR 4.16 24 Anatoliy Pakhutsov (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 25 Volodymyr Starchyk (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 4.19 26 Oleksandr Nykolenko (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 4.23 27 Hossein Askari (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical 4.24 28 Martin Lollesgaard (Den) Danish National Team 4.25 29 Peter Andres (Swi) Swiss National Team 4.43 30 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team Sparkasse 5.25 31 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Hongta Hong Kong 5.35 32 Oleksandr Polyvoda (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 5.41 33 Mehdi Faridi (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical 5.44 34 Stefan Poll (Aut) Arbö KTM Junkers 5.53 35 Guo Hui (Chn) Chinese National Team 5.57 36 Jacob Nielsen (Den) Danish National Team 6.00 37 Nicholas Reistad (USA) Jelly Belly 6.14 38 Christopher Jory (Aus) Panasonic 6.32 39 Masaaki Kikuchi (Jpn) Meitan Hompo GDR 6.47 40 Miyataka Shimizu (Jpn) Meitan Hompo GDR 7.00 41 Baoqing Song (Chn) Chinese National Team 7.04 42 Lars Wackernagel (Ger) Team Sparkasse 7.20 43 Anton Afonin (Rus) Russian National Team 7.48 44 Hossein Jahanbanian (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical 7.55 45 Sergiy Matveev (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 8.22 46 Nariyuki Masuda (Jpn) Meitan Hompo GDR 10.55 47 Daniel Kreutzfeldt (Den) Danish National Team 11.12 48 Phillip Nielsen (Den) Danish National Team 11.40 49 Poiotr Osinski (Pol) Polish National Team 13.10 50 Yuriy Metlushenko (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 16.40 51 Xitao Ji (Chn) Chinese National Team 19.12 52 Yandong Xing (Chn) Trek Marco Polo 20.22 53 Chun-Kai Feng (Tpe) Chinese Taipei 20.24 54 Fuyu Li (Chn) Trek Marco Polo 20.26 55 Pawel Cieslik (Pol) Polish National Team 20.41 56 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Meitan Hompo GDR 21.27 57 Herwin Jaya (Ina) Polygon Sweet Nice 21.48 58 Steve Zampieri (Swi) Swiss National Team 21.56 59 Hari Fitrianto (Ina) Polygon Sweet Nice 22.03 60 Feng Han (Chn) Trek Marco Polo 22.27 61 Benjamin Baumgartner (Swi) Swiss National Team 22.34 62 Mohd Nor Rizuaht Zainal (Mas) Malaysian National Team 22.52 63 Sergey Renev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 22.58 64 Rongxi Zou (Chn) Chinese National Team 23.57 65 Dirk Muller (Ger) Team Sparkasse 23.59 66 Christoph Springer (Ger) Cosmote Kastro 24.02 67 Kin San Wu (HKg) Hongta Hong Kong 26.03 68 Ronald Yin Hon Yeung (HKg) Hongta Hong Kong 26.35 69 Sergey Firsanov (Rus) Russian National Team 26.58 70 Artemiy Timofeev (Rus) Polygon Sweet Nice 27.58 71 Kuei Hsiang Peng (Tpe) Giant Asia Racing 27.59 72 Kuan-Hua Lai (Tpe) Chinese Taipei 28.10 73 Yilin Liu (Chn) Trek Marco Polo 29.07 74 Ruslan Tleubayev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 29.21 75 Luke Cridland (Aus) Panasonic 29.51 76 Fan-Hsin Chu (Tpe) Chinese Taipei 29.59 77 Cheng Ji (Chn) Chinese National Team 30.12 78 Stefan Loffler (Ger) Giant Asia Racing 30.21 79 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysian National Team 31.22 80 Richard Faltus (Cze) Team Sparkasse 34.03 81 Dale Scarfe (Aus) Panasonic 34.16 82 Petr Lechner (Cze) Arbö KTM Junkers 34.48 83 Evgeny Bakhin (Rus) Russian National Team 41.20 84 Lars Pria (Rom) Cosmote Kastro 41.22 85 Charles Huff (USA) Jelly Belly 44.30 86 Igor Boev (Rus) Russian National Team 45.56 87 Mykhailo Kononenko (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 46.57 88 Jiri Skrobanek (Cze) Cosmote Kastro 47.29 89 Hannes Grundlinger (Aut) Arbö KTM Junkers 47.35 90 Ahmad Haidar Anuawar (Mas) Malaysian National Team 54.07 91 Loic Muhlemann (Swi) Swiss National Team 54.15 92 Xavier Charles (Swi) Swiss National Team 54.54 93 Tim Guy (Aus) Panasonic 55.01 94 Long Jin (Chn) Chinese National Team 55.26 95 Vadim Maslennikov (Rus) Russian National Team 56.40 96 Mohammed Zamri Saleh (Mas) Malaysian National Team 1.01.55 97 Mathew Rice (Aus) Jelly Belly 1.07.24 98 Shuai-Chun Chiang (Tpe) Chinese Taipei 1.09.06 99 Valeriy Dmitriyev (Kaz) Kazakhstan National Team 1.23.35 100 Chi Shek Chui (HKg) Hongta Hong Kong 1.27.05 101 Vahid Gaffari (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical 1.32.15 Points classification 1 Boris Shpilevsky (Rus) Russian National Team 111 pts 2 Stefan Löffler (Ger) Giant Asia Racing Team 58 3 Bradley Huff (USA) Jelly Belly 50 4 Yuri Metlushenko (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 43 5 Andreas Schillinger (Ger) Team Sparkasse 36 6 Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn) Meitan Hompo GDR 33 7 Dale Scarfe (Aus) Panasonic 30 8 David McCann (Irl) Giant Asia Racing Team 27 9 Blazej Janiaczyk (Pol) Polish National Team 24 10 Valentin Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstani National Team 21 11 Philipp Mamos (Ger) Team Sparkasse 20 12 Jacek Morajko (Pol) Polish National Team 19 13 Petr Lechner (Cze) Arbö KTM Junkers 18 14 Peter John Herzig (Aus) Panasonic 17 15 Ahmad Haidar Anuawar (Mas) Malaysia 15 16 Fuyu Li (Chn) Trek Marco Polo 11 17 Miyataka Shimizu (Jpn) Meitan Hompo GDR 10 18 Amir Zargari (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical Team 9 19 Yan Dong Xing (Chn) Trek Marco Polo 8 20 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Meitan Hompo GDR 8 21 Philip Nielsen (Den) Danish National Team 8 22 Dmitriy Gruzdev (Kaz) Kazakhstani National Team 7 23 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 6 24 Kiel Reijnen (USA) Jelly Belly 6 25 Martin Lollesgaard (Den) Danish National Team 5 26 Oleksandr Polyvoda (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 5 27 Ronald Yin Hon Yeung (HKg) Hongta Hong Kong 5 28 Timothy Guy (Aus) Panasonic 5 29 Mateusz Taciak (Pol) Polish National Team 5 30 Sergiy Matveev (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 5 31 Artem Timofeev (Rus) Polygon Sweet Nice 5 32 Yevgeniy Sladkov (Kaz) Kazakhstani National Team 4 33 Guo Hui (Chn) Chinese National Team 4 34 Xitao Ji (Chn) Chinese National Team 4 35 Jai Crawford (Aus) Trek Marco Polo 3 36 Jan Barta (Cze) Arbö KTM Junkers 3 37 Daniel Kreutzfeldt (Den) Danish National Team 3 38 Poiotr Osinski (Pol) Polish National Team 3 39 Zainal Mohammed Nor Rizuaht (Mas) Malaysia 3 40 Yilin Liu (Chn) Trek Marco Polo 3 41 Valeriy Dmitriyev (Kaz) Kazakhstani National Team 3 42 Michael Christensen (Den) Danish National Team 2 43 Mariusz Witecki (Pol) Polish National Team 2 44 Erik Hoffmann (Ger) Giant Asia Racing Team 2 45 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical Team 2 46 Mohammed Zamri Saleh (Mas) Malaysia 2 47 Anatoliy Pakhutsov (Ukr) Ukrainian National Team 1 48 Ruslan Tleubayev (Kaz) Kazakhstani National Team 1 49 Lars Pria (Rom) Cosmote Kastro 1 Mountains classification 1 Valentin Iglinskiy (Kaz) Kazakhstani National Team 15 pts 2 Jacek Morajko (Pol) Polish National Team 12 3 Ghader Mizbani Iranagh (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical Team 10 4 Peter John Herzig (Aus) Panasonic 7 5 Jai Crawford (Aus) Trek Marco Polo 7 6 Valeriy Dmitriyev (Kaz) Kazakhstani National Team 6 7 Yilin Liu (Chn) Trek Marco Polo 5 8 David McCann (Irl) Giant Asia Racing Team 3 9 Pawel Cieslik (Pol) Polish National Team 3 10 Boris Shpilevsky (Rus) Russian National Team 2 11 Hassan Suhardi (Mas) Malaysia 2 12 Mateusz Taciak (Pol) Polish National Team 1 13 Erik Hoffmann (Ger) Giant Asia Racing Team 1 14 Poiotr Osinski (Pol) Polish National Team 1 Teams classification 1 Polish National Team 89.56.24 2 Kazakhstan National Team 0.33 3 Giant Asia Racing 3.12 4 Jelly Belly 3.32 5 Ukrainian National Team 4.35 6 Tabriz Petrochemical 5.21 7 Meitan Hompo GDR 5.29 8 Danish National Team 6.18 9 Team Sparkasse 8.23 10 Russian National Team 9.42 11 Chinese National Team 11.34 12 Trek Marco Polo 23.10 13 Arbö KTM Junkers 30.48 14 Panasonic 32.56 15 Swiss National Team 43.25 16 Hongta Hong Kong 52.30 17 Polygon Sweet Nice 1.06.37 18 Chinese Taipei 1.12.32 19 Malaysian National Team 1.37.35 20 Cosmote Kastro 1.40.12
