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Fumiyuki Beppu (Team RadioShack)
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Main group was controlled by Aisan Racing team
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Takashi Miyazawa(Farnese Vini - Neri Sottoli)
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Before race start, Fumiyuki Beppu (Team RadioShack) focussed
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Fumiyuki Beppu (Team RadioShack) was so happy for his second win
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Fumiyuki Beppu (Team RadioShack) wears the Japanese champion's jersey at the award ceremony
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Fumiyuki Beppu (Team RadioShack) got his second Japanese national title
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Yukiya Arashiro(Team Europcar) missed the win
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The sprint finish
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Fumiyuki Beppu(Team RadioShack) attacked with Junpei Murakami(Shimano Racing)
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Fumiyuki Beppu (Team RadioShack) attacked with Junpei Murakami (Shimano Racing)
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Riders passed Hachimantai's paddy field
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The men's peloton
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Riders wait for the race start
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Fumiyuki Beppu (Team RadioShack) drank champagne
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Team RadioShack's Fumiyuki Beppu is the new Japanese professional road champion.
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.
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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.
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Japan men
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Rider Name (Country) Team
Result
1
Fumiyuki Beppu (Jpn) Team RadioShack
5:13:05
2
Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Team Europcar
Row 1 - Cell 2
3
Miyataka Shimizu (Jpn) Bridgestone Anchor
Row 2 - Cell 2
4
Ryota Nishizono (Jpn) Shimano Racing Team
Row 3 - Cell 2
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
Row 11 - Cell 2
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
Row 21 - Cell 2
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
Row 25 - Cell 2
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
Row 29 - Cell 2
31
Taichi Togao (Jpn)
0:09:44
32
Tomohiro Kinoshita (Jpn)
Row 31 - Cell 2
33
Yoshimitsu Hiratsuka (Jpn)
0:09:59
34
Akira Kakinuma (Jpn) Utsunomiya Blitzen
Row 33 - Cell 2
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
