Sky stagiaire Tao Geoghegan Hart leads the bunch.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Fumiyuki Beppu (Trek)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Lampre-Merida(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Team Sky(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Trek Factory Racing(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Novo Nordisk(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Novo Nordisk(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Fumiyuki Beppu (Trek Factory Racing), Ben Swift (Team Sky) and Steele Von Hoff (NFTO)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Beppu greets his teammates after his win(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Teal Sky drives the pace(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
BMC Racing Team(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
BMC Racing Team(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton races through the streets of Utsunomiya(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
1. Fumiyuki Beppu (Trek Factory Racing) 2. Ben Swift (Team Sky) 3. Steele Von Hoff (NFTO)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Fumiyuki Beppu (Trek)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton races through the streets of Utsunomiya(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Tao Geoghegan Hart (Team Sky)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Michael Schar (BMC)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton races through the streets of Utsunomiya(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton races through the streets of Utsunomiya(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton races through the streets of Utsunomiya(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton races through the streets of Utsunomiya(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Bernie Eisel (Team Sky)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Trek's Fumiyuki Beppu and Fabian Cancellara in the bunch.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton races through the streets of Utsunomiya(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton races through the streets of Utsunomiya(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton races through the streets of Utsunomiya(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton races through the streets of Utsunomiya(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton races through the streets of Utsunomiya(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
BMC Racing Team(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Fumiyuki Beppu is congratulated by a teammame(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
A breakaway attempt.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton races through the streets of Utsunomiya(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton races through the streets of Utsunomiya(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Michael Schar (BMC)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton races through the streets of Utsunomiya(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
The peloton races through the streets of Utsunomiya(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Sky stagiaire Tao Geoghegan Hart leads the bunch.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Michael Schar (BMC)(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Novo Nordisk on the front(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Trek comes to the front of the pack.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Trek's Fumiyuki Beppu and Fabian Cancellara after the race.(Image credit: Tim de Waele/TDWSport.com)
Trek Factory Racing's Fumiyuki Beppu sprinted to the win Saturday in the Japan Cup criterium, a warm-up race for Sunday's 1.HC road race. The Japanese rider out-sprinted Ben Swift (Team Sky) and Steele Von Hoff (NFTO) at the end of the 35.65km course, which was made up of 20 laps of a 1.55km circuit on the main street in Utsunomiya.
The race marked the return to competition for Trek's Fabian Cancellara since he crashed out of the Vuelta a Espana in August and was forced to skip the World Championships. The team celebrated Cancellara's return by leading out Beppu for the win.
