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Tour of Japan - 2.2
Japan, May 14-21, 2006
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Stage 4 - May 19: Mount Fuji ITT, 11.4km
Sweet paradise for the young gun
Augustyn wins the hardest stage in Japan
By Miwako Sasaki
John-Lee Augustyn (Team Konica Minolta) won the fourth stage of the 10th Tour of Japan, a mountain time trial on Mount Fuji. The 19 year-old was fifth in the same race last year, in 42'05, but he could climb faster this year and did it in 40'56. It was also his first victory as a professional.
The course of the time trial up the highest mountain in Japan was 11.4km in length, starting from 800m altitude and finishing at 2000m. The altitude gap was 1200m and the average gradient was over 10.5 percent. And at 1 km to go, the slope steepened to a leg breaking 22 percent.
It was rainy and cold day. 91 riders started the race, separated into three waves, and the race had an hour and a half break between each group. Cyclo-cross man Kevin Pauwels (Fidea Cycling Team) finished in 44'54, and took the lead in the first group. Before the race started in Osaka, World Cyclo-cross Champion Erwin Vervecken (Fidea Cycling Team) told Cyclingnews, "We came here to ride a time trial."
He was joking a little, but the cyclo-cross riders did well in the hilly race in Japan. Even time trial specialist Raivis Belohvosciks (Team Universal Caffe-C.B. Immobiliare) who finished in 45'00 in the second group, couldn't break Pauwels' time. After 61 riders finished, Vervecken was still in 5th place, in 47'00.
But the first 30 riders on G.C. were better than the cyclo-cross men (natuurlijk). Young climber Augustyn finished first in 40'56 and the green leader's jersey of Vladimir Duma (Team Universal Caffe-C.B. Immobiliare) was second, 1'01 behind Augustyn. Last year's stage winner Andrey Mizourov (Cycling Team Capec) was third in 42'55.
Now the young boy from South Africa wearing the red mountains jersey today is close to the green leader's jersey, only 16 seconds behind Ukrainian Duma.
Tomorrow will be the final chance for Augustyn and his team, Konica Minolta. The 5th stage will be held in Izu, another hilly course, and that last tough stage of the Tour of Japan.
Results
1 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Konica Minolta 40.56 2 Vladimir Duma (Ukr) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 1.01 3 Andrey Mizurov (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 1.59 4 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 2.32 5 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Skil Shimano 2.37 6 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 3.25 7 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil Shimano 3.37 8 Peter Velits (Svk) Konica Minolta 3.37 9 Takumi Beppu (Jpn) Asian Racing Team 3.39 10 Fabio Gilioli (Ita) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 3.54 11 Kevin Pauwels (Bel) Fidea Cycling Team 3.58 12 Paul Griffin (Irl) Giant Asia Racing Team 4.01 13 Raivis Belohvoschiks (Lat) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 4.04 14 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 4.26 15 Martin Velits (Svk) Konica Minolta 4.34 16 Hanco Kachelhoffer (RSA) Konica Minolta 5.17 17 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 5.19 18 David McCann (Irl) Giant Asia Racing Team 5.22 19 Takeaki Ayabe (Jpn) Asian Racing Team 5.33 20 Miyataka Shimizu (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 5.35 21 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) Fidea Cycling Team 6.04 22 Alexey Lyalko (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 6.11 23 Junya Sano (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 6.19 24 Daniel Lloyd (Ger) Giant Asia Racing Team 6.25 25 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 6.27 26 Akira Kakinuma (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 6.30 27 Taichi Moriyama (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 6.44 28 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 6.49 29 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Fidea Cycling Team 6.52 30 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 6.57 31 Yasuhiro Nito (Jpn) Nalsema Frend 6.57 32 Takayuki Naganuma (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 7.00 33 Yasutaka Tashiro (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 7.04 34 Mitsuteru Tanaka (Jpn) Asian Racing Team 7.06 35 Bart Wellens (Bel) Fidea Cycling Team 7.15 36 Kam Po Wang (HKg) Hong Kong National Team 7.20 37 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 7.27 38 Kohei Tsusue (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 7.28 39 Dmitri Nikandorov (Rus) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 7.31 40 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Skil Shimano 7.38 41 Marnus Potgieter (RSA) Konica Minolta 7.41 42 Jan Verstraeten (Bel) Fidea Cycling Team 7.47 43 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 8.18 44 Kenichi Suzuki (Jpn) You Can Specialized Nissyo 8.20 45 Ivan De Nobile (Ita) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 8.23 46 Peter Dawson (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 8.28 47 Sean Finning (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 8.42 48 Tomoya Sano (Jpn) Team Matrix Powertag 8.54 49 Yip Tang Wang (HKg) Hong Kong National Team 9.00 50 Daniele Di Nucci (Ita) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 9.01 51 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 9.08 52 Kentaro Eshita (Jpn) Sumita Raello Pearl Izumi 9.30 53 Hua Lai Kuan (Tpe) Giant Asia Racing Team 9.32 54 Ken Hashikawa (Jpn) Team Matrix Powertag 9.45 55 Yuzuru Suzuki (Jpn) You Can Specialized Nissyo 9.45 56 Manabu Hirose (Jpn) You Can Specialized Nissyo 9.56 57 Yusuke Hatanaka (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 10.01 58 Peter Van Santvliet (Bel) Fidea Cycling Team 10.03 59 Tobias Erler (Ger) Giant Asia Racing Team 10.05 60 Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 10.11 61 Masahumi Yamane (Jpn) You Can Specialized Nissyo 10.11 62 Ken Akita (Jpn) Asian Racing Team 10.23 63 Hing Chan Chun (HKg) Hong Kong National Team 10.25 64 Arthur Ayers (Jpn) Sumita Raello Pearl Izumi 10.28 65 Atsushi Takano (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 10.28 66 Masayuki Kimura (Jpn) Nalsema Frend 10.36 67 Koki Shimbo (Jpn) Asian Racing Team 10.44 68 Kojiro Nakagawa (Jpn) Team Matrix Powertag 10.49 69 Yoshiaki Sudou (Jpn) Nalsema Frend 11.08 70 Wai Cheung King (HKg) Hong Kong National Team 11.11 71 Kazunari Asano (Jpn) Sumita Raello Pearl Izumi 11.22 72 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Asian Racing Team 11.32 73 Masahiro Shinagawa (Jpn) Skil Shimano 11.48 74 Tomoji Taniguchi (Jpn) Sumita Raello Pearl Izumi 11.48 75 Kyoshi Miura (Jpn) Team Matrix Powertag 12.01 76 Yoshinori Iino (Jpn) Sumita Raello Pearl Izumi 12.17 77 Michael Ford (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 12.18 78 San Wu Kin (HKg) Hong Kong National Team 12.25 79 Akihiro Munehisa (Jpn) You Can Specialized Nissyo 12.33 80 Hideo Yoshida (Jpn) Nalsema Frend 12.39 81 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 12.40 82 Kaoru Ohuchi (Jpn) Skil Shimano 12.40 83 Kuei Hsiang Peng (Tpe) Giant Asia Racing Team 12.42 84 Masaru Fukuhara (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 13.10 85 Kaoru Obata (Jpn) Nalsema Frend 13.11 86 Norihide Murayama (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 13.12 87 Koji Nagano (Jpn) Team Matrix Powertag 13.42 88 Ikki Yoneyama (Jpn) Sumita Raello Pearl Izumi 13.58 89 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Skil Shimano 14.11 90 Naoki Mukaigawa (Jpn) Team Matrix Powertag 14.31 91 Ashley Hutchinson (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 14.48 Mountains 1 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Konica Minolta 15 pts 3 Vladimir Duma (Ukr) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 12 4 Andrey Mizurov (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 10 5 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 8 6 Peter Velits (Svk) Konica Minolta 3 8 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil Shimano 4 9 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Skil Shimano 6 10 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 5 16 Takumi Beppu (Jpn) Asian Racing Team 2 21 Fabio Gilioli (Ita) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 1 General classification after stage 4 1 Vladimir Duma (Ukr) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 11.51.48 2 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Konica Minolta 0.16 3 Andrey Mizurov (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 1.50 4 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 2.23 5 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Skil Shimano 2.28 6 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil Shimano 2.46 7 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 3.16 8 Peter Velits (Svk) Konica Minolta 3.28 9 Martin Velits (Svk) Konica Minolta 3.40 10 Takumi Beppu (Jpn) Asian Racing Team 3.42 11 Fabio Gilioli (Ita) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 5.03 12 Paul Griffin (Irl) Giant Asia Racing Team 5.15 13 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 5.28 14 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 5.40 15 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 6.40 16 Takeaki Ayabe (Jpn) Asian Racing Team 6.42 17 Miyataka Shimizu (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 18 Yasutaka Tashiro (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 6.55 19 Kam Po Wang (HKg) Hong Kong National Team 7.11 20 Ilya Chernyshov (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 7.36 21 Akira Kakinuma (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 7.56 22 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 8.10 23 Marnus Potgieter (RSA) Konica Minolta 8.50 24 Daniele Di Nucci (Ita) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 8.52 25 Hanco Kachelhoffer (RSA) Konica Minolta 9.05 26 Tomoya Sano (Jpn) Team Matrix Powertag 10.18 27 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) Fidea Cycling Team 13.05 28 Raivis Belohvoschiks (Lat) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 13.12 29 Junya Sano (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 13.13 30 Daniel Lloyd (Ger) Giant Asia Racing Team 13.17 31 Alexey Lyalko (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 13.45 32 Zdenek Stybar (Cze) Fidea Cycling Team 13.48 33 Mitsuteru Tanaka (Jpn) Asian Racing Team 13.50 34 San Wu Kin (HKg) Hong Kong National Team 13.54 35 Yasuhiro Nito (Jpn) Nalsema Frend 13.58 36 Dmitri Nikandorov (Rus) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 14.15 37 Kohei Tsusue (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 14.32 38 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Skil Shimano 15.01 39 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 15.18 40 Ivan De Nobile (Ita) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 15.24 41 Jan Verstraeten (Bel) Fidea Cycling Team 15.45 42 Kaoru Obata (Jpn) Nalsema Frend 16.00 43 Hua Lai Kuan (Tpe) Giant Asia Racing Team 16.28 44 Manabu Hirose (Jpn) You Can Specialized Nissyo 16.57 45 Kojiro Nakagawa (Jpn) Team Matrix Powertag 17.50 46 Masahiro Shinagawa (Jpn) Skil Shimano 18.46 47 Satoshi Hirose (Jpn) Asian Racing Team 48 Kyoshi Miura (Jpn) Team Matrix Powertag 18.53 49 Yoshinori Iino (Jpn) Sumita Raello Pearl Izumi 19.01 50 Michael Ford (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 19.16 51 Kaoru Ohuchi (Jpn) Skil Shimano 19.41 52 Kuei Hsiang Peng (Tpe) Giant Asia Racing Team 19.58 53 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 20.31 54 Yip Tang Wang (HKg) Hong Kong National Team 21.13 55 Yoshimasa Hirose (Jpn) Skil Shimano 21.35 56 Bart Wellens (Bel) Fidea Cycling Team 21.51 57 Koki Shimbo (Jpn) Asian Racing Team 22.06 58 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 23.02 59 Yoshiaki Sudou (Jpn) Nalsema Frend 23.21 60 Ken Akita (Jpn) Asian Racing Team 25.21 61 Kentaro Eshita (Jpn) Sumita Raello Pearl Izumi 25.40 62 Kenichi Suzuki (Jpn) You Can Specialized Nissyo 26.06 63 Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 26.10 64 Masahiko Mifune (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 28.58 65 Naoki Mukaigawa (Jpn) Team Matrix Powertag 29.36 66 Masaru Fukuhara (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 30.10 67 Masayuki Kimura (Jpn) Nalsema Frend 30.31 68 Ken Hashikawa (Jpn) Team Matrix Powertag 30.35 69 Atsushi Takano (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 47.18 70 Arthur Ayers (Jpn) Sumita Raello Pearl Izumi 48.45 71 Kevin Pauwels (Bel) Fidea Cycling Team 49.15 72 David McCann (Irl) Giant Asia Racing Team 50.39 73 Tobias Erler (Ger) Giant Asia Racing Team 50.44 74 Taichi Moriyama (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 52.54 75 Hing Chan Chun (HKg) Hong Kong National Team 55.59 76 Wai Cheung King (HKg) Hong Kong National Team 56.38 77 Yuzuru Suzuki (Jpn) You Can Specialized Nissyo 58.06 78 Norihide Murayama (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 1.01.33 79 Hideo Yoshida (Jpn) Nalsema Frend 1.03.25 80 Takayuki Naganuma (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 1.05.18 81 Yusuke Hatanaka (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 1.08.19 82 Masahumi Yamane (Jpn) You Can Specialized Nissyo 1.09.23 83 Sean Finning (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 1.10.02 84 Kazunari Asano (Jpn) Sumita Raello Pearl Izumi 1.10.34 85 Akihiro Munehisa (Jpn) You Can Specialized Nissyo 1.11.45 86 Ikki Yoneyama (Jpn) Sumita Raello Pearl Izumi 1.12.16 87 Koji Nagano (Jpn) Team Matrix Powertag 1.12.39 88 Peter Dawson (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 1.27.40 89 Peter Van Santvliet (Bel) Fidea Cycling Team 1.29.15 90 Tomoji Taniguchi (Jpn) Sumita Raello Pearl Izumi 1.31.00 91 Ashley Hutchinson (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 1.34.00 Points classification 1 Kam Po Wang (HKg) Hong Kong National Team 28 pts 2 Daniele Di Nucci (Ita) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 27 3 Vladimir Duma (Ukr) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 20 4 Raivis Belohvoschiks (Lat) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 15 5 Martin Velits (Svk) Konica Minolta 15 6 Shinri Suzuki (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 15 7 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 12 8 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 10 9 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil Shimano 10 10 Ashley Hutchinson (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 10 11 Hanco Kachelhoffer (RSA) Konica Minolta 9 12 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 8 13 Andrey Mizurov (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 6 14 Fabio Gilioli (Ita) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 6 15 Erwin Vervecken (Bel) Fidea Cycling Team 6 16 Peter Velits (Svk) Konica Minolta 5 17 Masahiro Shinagawa (Jpn) Skil Shimano 5 18 Yasutaka Tashiro (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 4 19 Bart Wellens (Bel) Fidea Cycling Team 4 20 Makoto Iijima (Jpn) Team Bridgestone Anchor 3 21 Junya Sano (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 2 22 Andrey Medyannikov (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 2 23 Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 2 24 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 1 25 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 1 Mountains classification 1 John-Lee Augustyn (RSA) Konica Minolta 15 pts 2 Raivis Belohvoschiks (Lat) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 15 3 Vladimir Duma (Ukr) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 12 4 Andrey Mizurov (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 10 5 Alexandr Dyachenko (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 8 6 Peter Velits (Svk) Konica Minolta 8 7 Taichi Moriyama (Jpn) Miyata Subaru 8 8 Yukihiro Doi (Jpn) Skil Shimano 7 9 Tomoya Kano (Jpn) Skil Shimano 6 10 Matthew Lloyd (Aus) South Australia.com-AIS 5 11 Martin Velits (Svk) Konica Minolta 5 12 Alexandr Dymovskikh (Kaz) Capec Cycling Team 5 13 David McCann (Irl) Giant Asia Racing Team 5 14 Yukiya Arashiro (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 3 15 Koji Fukushima (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 3 16 Takumi Beppu (Jpn) Asian Racing Team 2 17 Shinichi Fukushima (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 2 18 Hidenori Nodera (Jpn) Skil Shimano 2 19 Bart Wellens (Bel) Fidea Cycling Team 2 20 Takashi Miyazawa (Jpn) Team Vang Cycling 2 21 Fabio Gilioli (Ita) Team Universal Caffe - C.B.Immobiliare 1 Teams classification 1 Team Konika Minolta 35.42.32 2 Team Universal Caffe-C.B.Immobiliare 1.51 3 Cycling Team Capec 2.33 4 Aisan Racing Team 11.36 5 Team Vang Cycling 12.14 6 Skil-Shimano 12.43 7 Miyata-Subaru 21.18 8 Giant Asia Racing Team 23.43 9 Fidea Cycling Team 27.19 10 Hong Kong China 27.48 11 Team Matrix Powertag-Specialized 37.37 12 Nalsima Frend 43.37 13 Team Bridgestone-Anchor 44.19 14 South Australia.com-AIS 1.10.12 15 You Can Specialized Nissyo 1.14.02 16 Sumita Ravanello Pearl Izumi 1.25.25
