Japanese Road Championships 2011: Elite Men Road Race Results

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Fumiyuki Beppu (Team RadioShack) (Image credit: Riccardo Scanferla)

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Main group was controlled by Aisan Racing team (Image credit: Sonoko Tanaka)

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Takashi Miyazawa(Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli) (Image credit: Sonoko Tanaka)

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Before race start, Fumiyuki Beppu (Team RadioShack) focussed (Image credit: Sonoko Tanaka)

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Fumiyuki Beppu (Team RadioShack) was so happy for his second win (Image credit: Sonoko Tanaka)

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Fumiyuki Beppu (Team RadioShack) wears the Japanese champion's jersey at the award ceremony (Image credit: Sonoko Tanaka)

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Fumiyuki Beppu (Team RadioShack) got his second Japanese national title (Image credit: Sonoko Tanaka)

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Yukiya Arashiro(Team Europcar) missed the win (Image credit: Sonoko Tanaka)

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The sprint finish (Image credit: Sonoko Tanaka)

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Fumiyuki Beppu(Team RadioShack) attacked with Junpei Murakami(Shimano Racing) (Image credit: Sonoko Tanaka)

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Riders passed Hachimantai's paddy field (Image credit: Sonoko Tanaka)

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The men's peloton (Image credit: Sonoko Tanaka)

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Riders wait for the race start (Image credit: Sonoko Tanaka)

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Fumiyuki Beppu (Team RadioShack) drank champagne (Image credit: Sonoko Tanaka)

Team RadioShack's Fumiyuki Beppu is the new Japanese professional road champion.

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Beppu beat three other riders in the sprint in Hachimantai. Team Europcar's Yukiya Arashiro was second and Miyataka Shimizu (Bridgestone-Anchor) was third.

It's Beppu's second victory in the national road race championship and his second national championship double. He also won this year’s time trial and so repeated his achievement of 2006 when he won both titles.

Beppu became the first Japanese rider to complete the Tour de France along with in 2009, along with Yukiya Arashiro. He completed the Giro d’Italia this year and arrived in Japan in great shape. Beppu will now return and wear his distinctive Japanese champion’s jersey for the first time at the Tour of Austria that starts on Sunday July 3.

Full Results

Japan men
#	Rider Name (Country) Team	Result
1	Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Team RadioShack	5:13:05
2	Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Team Europcar
3	Miyataka Shimizu (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor
4	Ryota Nishizono (Jpn) Shimano Racing Team
5	Nariyuki Masuda (Jpn) Utsunomiya Blitzen	0:00:03
6	Yuzuru Suzuki (Jpn) Shimano Racing Team	0:00:06
7	Taiji Nishitani (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team	0:00:13
8	Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Terengganu Cycling Team	0:00:17
9	Kazuo Inoue (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor	0:00:23
10	Takeaki Ayabe (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team	0:00:25
11	Yusuke Hatanaka (Jpn) Shimano Racing Team	0:00:29
12	Nara Motoi (Jpn) Terengganu Cycling Team
13	Tomohiro Hayakawa (Jpn)	0:00:39
14	Masaru Fukuhara (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor	0:00:47
15	Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Shimano Racing Team	0:00:55
16	Kazuyuki Manabe (Jpn) Matrix Powertag	0:00:59
17	Hayato Yoshida (Jpn)	0:01:03
18	Akihiro Takaoka (Jpn)	0:01:04
19	Yoshiyuki Shimizu (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor	0:01:06
20	Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn) Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli	0:01:41
21	Junya Sano (Jpn) d'Angelo & Antenucci - Nippo	0:01:50
22	Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor
23	Makoto Nakamura (Jpn) Utsunomiya Blitzen	0:02:57
24	Kazuhiro Mori (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team	0:04:49
25	Takahiro Yamashita (Jpn) Matrix Powertag	0:05:15
26	Kazuki Aoyanagi (Jpn) Shimano Racing Team
27	Takayuki Abe (Jpn)	0:08:06
28	Seitaro Nakano (Jpn)	0:08:14
29	Sho Hatsuyama (Jpn) Utsunomiya Blitzen	0:09:27
30	Masakazu Ito (Jpn) Aisan Racing Team
31	Taichi Togao (Jpn)	0:09:44
32	Tomohiro Kinoshita (Jpn)
33	Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka (Jpn)	0:09:59
34	Akira Kakinuma (Jpn) Utsunomiya Blitzen
35	Kensuke Ohara (Jpn)	0:10:05
36	Keita Iwashima (Jpn)	0:10:28
37	Igarashi Takeshi (Jpn) Fuji - Cyclingtime.com	0:11:38
38	Kaoru Obata (Jpn)	0:13:20
39	Kenji Itami (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor	0:13:33
40	Kyosuke Takei (Jpn)	0:15:02