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8th Tour of South China Sea - 2.5
China, December 25, 2003 - January 1, 2004
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Stage 6 - December 30: GP Racing Circuit (Zhuhai), 108km
Grishkin cements himself on top
By Gudo Kramer
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The Moscow City Omnisport team showed that they are the best team by far in the Tour of South China Sea today at Zhuhai during the 6th stage. The team worked professionally towards another sprint victory of Oleg Grishkin, his fourth in this Tour and the fifth stage victory of his team in six stages. Kam Po Wong won six bonus seconds by sprinting to a second place, that may turn out to be very important in the final calculations, as he is the favourite in tomorrow's stage on Coloane Island, finishing up a steep climb.
In Zhuhai, Brett Aitken, who was third on GC, had to drop out from the Tour of South China Sea as he has a knee injury (tendonitis). His participation in the Hong Kong Cycle Classic on the 4th of January is also in danger.
The stage saw a lot of riders attacking early in the race. Chris Baumann (Sierra Nevada/Marco Polo) opened the ball with an attack from the gun, bringing him a 1 minute lead, after one lap (4.3 km) on the GP Racing Circuit. Soon after he had been caught back, there were many others trying to get away. After a group of 15 looked too dangerous for Grishkin, his team started chasing, but the race leader had to close the final gap by himself. This was the sign for a new group to go. Masahiko Mifune (CMS World Wide Cycling) started the fire and soon the group was ten riders strong. With Li Wei, Zhang Li, Schewe, Gniot, Hlavac, Lazar, Jang Sun Jae, Dovrschik working hard and Minarschki protecting Grishkin, the group looked strong enough and not too dangerous for Grishkin. The maximum gap was 2 minutes 16 and with 7 laps to go, the Russians started up their train.
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The Russians gained back 30 seconds per lap in the first few laps and 20 seconds per lap after that. They waited to catch back the leaders only in the last corner, pulling the sprint perfectly for Grishkin. Kam Po Wong managed to come beside the fast Russian, but could not pass him.
With two stages to go, the difference between the pair is 17 seconds. Grishkin failed only in stage two of this race, the only stage that had some hills. This is where the hopes of the Hong Kong team lie, as the next stage on the 31st of December is a hilly one on Coloane island and ends with a steep two kilometre climb. The fight will be between Kam Po Wong and Oleg Grishkin, Wong probably also needing the bonus seconds to win this tour. A 17 second gap on Grishkin in just two steep kilometres is not very likely.
Photography
Images by Francis Cerny/Nikon Camera
- Pre-race chaos the pit at the GP Racing Circuit in Zhuhai
- Where is Brett Aitken?
- The leading group that almost made it but never had a chance
- The express train from Moscow deposited Oleg Grishkin to the line for another victory
Results
1 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 2.28.07 2 Kam Po Wong (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 3 Andrei Minachkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 4 Sergey Koudentsov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 5 Felix Rohrbach (Ger) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 6 Petr Lazar (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 7 Ying Chieh Hung Hsu (Tpe) Merida 8 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) World Wide Cycling 9 Alexey Lyalko (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 10 Chris Baumann (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 11 Sama'i (Ina) World Wide Cycling 12 Xiaoyong Han (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 13 Wanwan Setyobudi (Ina) World Wide Cycling 14 James Bennett (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 15 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 16 Vladimir Bushanskiy (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 17 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 18 Libor Hlavac (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 19 Michael Mourecek (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 20 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Japan National Team 21 Timothy Wilson (Aus) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 22 Li Zhang (Chn) Guangdong 23 Wei Li (Chn) Tianjin 24 King Yu Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 25 Rob Conjin (Ned) World Wide Cycling 26 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Japan National Team 27 Xiaohai Zheng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 28 Shaun Oneill (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 29 Chun Ming Tsoi (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 30 Weifeng Ivi (Chn) Shanghai 31 Shuaijun Chang (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 32 Peter Milostic (Aus) Bicisport Australia 33 Feng Yan (Chn) Shanghai 34 Remko Kramer (Ned) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 35 Chih Hsin Mu (Tpe) Merida 36 Enrico Zinn (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 37 Gang Wu (Chn) Guangdong 38 Chi Yin Leung (HKg) World Wide Cycling 39 Chris Bradford (Aus) World Wide Cycling 40 Fengxiong Pan (Chn) Shanghai 41 Keng Hsien Chen (Tpe) Merida 42 Tim Decker (Aus) Bicisport Australia 43 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 44 King Nin Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 45 Sun Jae Jang (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute 46 Milan Dovrscik (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 47 Armin Krahl (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 48 Tong Yu (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 49 Michal Kesl (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 50 Cang Xu (Chn) Shanghai 51 Felix Gniot (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 52 Greg Rossiter (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 53 Mikhail Mikheev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 54 Alexandre Khatuntsev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 55 Heng Wa Choi MAC Macau-Beijing Selection 56 Cameron Hughes (Aus) Bicisport Australia 57 Robert Nagy (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 58 Jack Wu (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 59 Go Takashima (Jpn) Japan National Team 60 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 61 Sergey Sevostyanov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 62 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 63 Richard Ondryas (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 0.21 64 Martin Blaha (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 65 Jan Sipeky (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 66 Shuhai Song (Chn) Guangdong 67 Lawrence Yung (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 68 Sascha Richter (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 69 Kuo Hua Lo (Tpe) Merida 0.24 70 Yan Liu (Chn) Guangdong 71 Derek Cheung (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 72 Quanjun Meng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 73 Zhaojun Wang (Chn) Tianjin 74 Hsin Hua Huang (Tpe) Merida 0.29 75 Steven Jansen (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 0.46 76 Jie Zhu (Chn) Shanghai 77 Seok Kyu Suh (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute 78 Maros Kovac (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 0.58 79 Sebastian Freese (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 1.15 80 Yanhao Sun (Chn) Tianjin 1.28 81 Jan Gazi (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 1.31 82 Dor Ming Chau (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 83 Lihui Zhang (Chn) Shanghai 1.38 84 Wang Yip Tang (HKg) Guangdong 85 Tim Collins (Aus) Bicisport Australia 86 Zhihang Jian (Chn) Guangzhou 2.51 87 Jon Pettingill (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 3.07 88 Denny Schewe (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 89 Kazuhiro Mori (Jpn) Japan National Team 3.41 90 Dusan Klucka (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 9.45 91 Edward Dockrill (Aus) Bicisport Australia 92 Troy White (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 21.54 93 Que Zhong (Chn) Guangzhou 27.58 DNF Teng Huan Liu (Tpe) Merida DNS Brett Aitken (Aus) Bicisport Australia Teams 1 Moscow City Sports Association 7.24.21 2 World Wide Cycling 3 Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 4 Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 5 ASC Dukla Praha 6 Kazakstan National Team 7 Macau-Beijing Selection 8 Merida 9 City of Perth Cycling Team 10 Shanghai 11 Japan National Team 12 Bicisport Australia 13 KED-Rad Team Berlin 14 Guangdong 0.21 15 ASK Dukla Trencin 16 Hong Kong Sports Institute 17 Tianjin 1.52 General classification after stage 6 1 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 13.04.10 2 Kam Po Wong (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 0.17 3 Peter Milostic (Aus) Bicisport Australia 0.31 4 Armin Krahl (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 0.46 5 Sergey Koudentsov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 1.31 6 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Japan National Team 1.37 7 Chun Ming Tsoi (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 8 Michal Kesl (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 9 Jan Sipeky (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 1.49 10 Cameron Hughes (Aus) Bicisport Australia 1.58 11 Martin Blaha (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 1.58 12 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 2.09 13 Andrei Minachkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 14 Xiaohai Zheng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 2.11 15 Xiaoyong Han (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 2.13 16 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) World Wide Cycling 17 Ying Chieh Hung Hsu (Tpe) Merida 18 Sama'i (Ina) World Wide Cycling 19 Timothy Wilson (Aus) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 20 Michael Mourecek (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 21 Petr Lazar (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 22 Alexey Lyalko (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 23 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 24 Libor Hlavac (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 25 Tim Decker (Aus) Bicisport Australia 26 Gang Wu (Chn) Guangdong 27 Shuaijun Chang (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 28 Vladimir Bushanskiy (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 29 Chih Hsin Mu (Tpe) Merida 30 King Nin Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 31 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Japan National Team 32 Heng Wa Choi MAC Macau-Beijing Selection 33 Chi Yin Leung (HKg) World Wide Cycling 34 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 35 Mikhail Mikheev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 36 Chris Bradford (Aus) World Wide Cycling 37 Alexandre Khatuntsev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 38 Rob Conjin (Ned) World Wide Cycling 39 Felix Gniot (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 40 Milan Dovrscik (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 41 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 2.27 42 Sergey Sevostyanov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 2.30 43 Li Zhang (Chn) Guangdong 2.46 44 Richard Ondryas (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 3.08 45 Maros Kovac (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 3.11 46 Yan Liu (Chn) Guangdong 47 Lawrence Yung (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 3.21 48 Jie Zhu (Chn) Shanghai 3.33 49 Seok Kyu Suh (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute 50 King Yu Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 3.34 51 Tong Yu (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 52 James Bennett (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 3.44 53 Shaun Oneill (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 3.52 54 Wei Li (Chn) Tianjin 4.28 55 Robert Nagy (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 4.47 56 Felix Rohrbach (Ger) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 5.15 57 Denny Schewe (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 5.54 58 Kazuhiro Mori (Jpn) Japan National Team 5.54 59 Sascha Richter (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 5.55 60 Keng Hsien Chen (Tpe) Merida 6.00 61 Enrico Zinn (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 6.51 62 Greg Rossiter (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 6.55 63 Jack Wu (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 10.27 64 Yanhao Sun (Chn) Tianjin 10.51 65 Shuhai Song (Chn) Guangdong 12.05 66 Sun Jae Jang (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute 19.27 67 Wanwan Setyobudi (Ina) World Wide Cycling 68 Derek Cheung (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 19.51 69 Cang Xu (Chn) Shanghai 20.01 70 Steven Jansen (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 20.13 71 Chris Baumann (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 20.15 72 Remko Kramer (Ned) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 20.36 73 Tim Collins (Aus) Bicisport Australia 22.09 74 Jan Gazi (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 22.19 75 Wang Yip Tang (HKg) Guangdong 24.28 76 Go Takashima (Jpn) Japan National Team 25.16 77 Quanjun Meng (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 25.55 78 Sebastian Freese (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 26.46 79 Zhihang Jian (Chn) Guangzhou 27.48 80 Kuo Hua Lo (Tpe) Merida 28.48 81 Hsin Hua Huang (Tpe) Merida 33.41 82 Fengxiong Pan (Chn) Shanghai 34.14 83 Chun Hing Chan (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 34.23 84 Edward Dockrill (Aus) Bicisport Australia 34.42 85 Dor Ming Chau (HKg) Hong Kong Sports Institute 35.08 86 Weifeng Ivi (Chn) Shanghai 40.37 87 Zhaojun Wang (Chn) Tianjin 41.07 88 Jon Pettingill (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 43.27 89 Lihui Zhang (Chn) Shanghai 43.36 90 Dusan Klucka (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 44.47 91 Feng Yan (Chn) Shanghai 52.20 92 Que Zhong (Chn) Guangzhou 1.11.17 93 Troy White (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 1.20.06 Points classification 1 Oleg Grishkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 100 pts 2 Kam Po Wong (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 50 3 Sergey Koudentsov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 49 4 Peter Milostic (Aus) Bicisport Australia 32 5 Alexey Lyalko (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 24 6 Chris Bradford (Aus) World Wide Cycling 22 7 King Nin Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 21 8 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Japan National Team 20 8 Ying Chieh Hung Hsu (Tpe) Merida 20 10 Jan Sipeky (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 18 11 Kai Tsun Lam (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 17 11 Martin Blaha (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 17 13 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) World Wide Cycling 14 14 Cameron Hughes (Aus) Bicisport Australia 13 14 Richard Ondryas (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 13 14 Michael Mourecek (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 13 14 Denny Schewe (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 13 14 Andrei Minachkin (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 13 19 Michal Kesl (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 12 20 Xiaoyong Han (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 11 20 Tong Yu (Chn) Macau-Beijing Selection 11 20 Armin Krahl (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 11 23 Alexandre Khatuntsev (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 10 24 Sama'i (Ina) World Wide Cycling 9 24 Petr Lazar (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 9 24 Enrico Zinn (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 9 24 Sun Jae Jang (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute 9 28 Li Zhang (Chn) Guangdong 8 28 James Bennett (Aus) City of Perth Cycling Team 8 28 Alexey Kolessov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 8 28 Sergey Sevostyanov (Rus) Moscow City Sports Association 8 28 Maros Kovac (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 8 28 Felix Rohrbach (Ger) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 8 34 Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Japan National Team 7 35 Seok Kyu Suh (Kor) Hong Kong Sports Institute 6 36 Libor Hlavac (Cze) ASC Dukla Praha 5 36 Keng Hsien Chen (Tpe) Merida 5 36 Remko Kramer (Ned) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 5 39 King Yu Lau (HKg) Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 4 39 Tim Decker (Aus) Bicisport Australia 4 39 Felix Gniot (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 4 39 Sascha Richter (Ger) KED-Rad Team Berlin 4 39 Robert Nagy (Svk) ASK Dukla Trencin 4 44 Chris Baumann (USA) Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 3 45 Shuhai Song (Chn) Guangdong 2 46 Cang Xu (Chn) Shanghai 1 46 Vladimir Bushanskiy (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 1 46 Yuriy Yuda (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 1 46 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Kazakstan National Team 1 Teams classification 1 Bicisport Australia 39.15.21 2 Pocari Sweat Hong Kong 1.36 3 Moscow City Sports Association 1.53 4 KED-Rad Team Berlin 2.21 5 ASC Dukla Praha 2.36 6 Japan National Team 3.12 7 Macau-Beijing Selection 8 ASK Dukla Trencin 3.24 9 Kazakstan National Team 3.48 10 Merida 11 World Wide Cycling 12 City of Perth Cycling Team 4.43 13 Guangdong 5.16 14 Hong Kong Sports Institute 11.16 15 Shanghai 17.23 16 Sierra Nevada - Marco Polo 24.04 17 Tianjin 1.03.26
