The 2008 Tour de Langkawi was the 13th edition of the Tour de Langkawi, a cycling stage race that took place in Malaysia. It started on 9 February in Alor Setar and ended on 17 February in Kuala Lumpur. This race was rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 2.HC race category and was highest ranked stage race on the 2007–08 UCI Asia Tour.
Moldova's Ruslan Ivanov emerged as the winner of the race, followed by Matthieu Sprick second and Gustavo César third. Aurélien Clerc won the points classification category and Filippo Savini won the mountains classification category. won the team classification category.
Stages The cyclists competed in 9 stages, covering a distance of 1,377.4 kilometres. The route for the Tour was unveiled on 17 December 2007 and revised on 31 December 2007. The traditional final race, criterium in Merdeka Square was also brought back to the race schedule. On January 23, 2008, it was announced that the route for Stage 8 Maran to Genting Highlands had been replaced with a route from Temerloh to Fraser's Hill due to the cyclist's safety reason. For the first time in the Tour's history, Genting Highlands route was not included in the race schedule. StageDateCourseDistanceStage resultWinnerSecondThird19 February Alor Setar to Kepala Batas210 February Butterworth to Sitiawan 311 February Sitiawan to Banting 412 February Port Dickson to Batu Pahat 513 February Johor Bahru to Bandar Penawar 614 February Bandar Penawar to Kuala Rompin 715 February Kuala Rompin to Kuantan 816 February Temerloh to Fraser's Hill917 February Merdeka Square, Kuala Lumpur Criterium
Classification leadership StageWinnerGeneral classificationPoints classificationMountains classificationAsian rider classificationTeam classificationAsian team classification 1Matthieu SprickMatthieu SprickMitchell Dockernot availableShinichi FukushimaSeoul Cycling Team2Jeremy HuntGustavo CésarMeitan Hompo-GDR3Lee Won-JaeAnuar Manan4Danilo Hondo5Alberto LoddoAurélien Clerc6José SerpaChristoph MeschenmoserPark Sung-BaekSeoul Cycling Team7Alexandre UsovMitchell Docker8Filippo SaviniRuslan IvanovFilippo SaviniShinichi Fukushima9Mauro Abel Richeze Final Ruslan Ivanov Aurélien Clerc Filippo SaviniShinichi FukushimaSeoul Cycling Team
Final standings
General classification RiderTeamTime1 31h 20' 28"2 + 29"3 + 32"4New Zealand + 36"5 + 48"6 + 56"7 + 01' 03"8 + 01' 09"9South Africa + 01' 44"10 + 01' 48"
Points classification RiderTeamPoints1 Aurélien Clerc 922 Anuar Manan603 Alexandre Usov494 Park Sung-BaekSeoul Cycling Team495 Marco Corsini476 Enrico Rossi437 Takashi MiyazawaMeitan Hompo-GDR408 Jeremy Hunt389 Sébastien Hinault3510 Nolan HoffmanSouth Africa34
Mountains classification RiderTeamPoints1 Filippo Savini 252 Ruslan Ivanov203 José Serpa164 Carlos José Ochoa125 Walter Pedraza106 Jeremy YatesNew Zealand87 Gustavo César68 Matthieu Sprick59 Christoph MeschenmoserTeam ISTA410 Mehdi Faridi4
Asian rider classification RiderTeamTime1 Shinichi Fukushima Meitan Hompo-GDR31h 21' 18"2 Tomoya Kano + 17"3 Hidenori Nodera + 01' 30"4 Park Sung-BaekSeoul Cycling Team + 04' 30"5 Kim Gu-HyeonSeoul Cycling Team + 20' 00"6 Mehdi Faridi + 22' 00"7 Tonton Susanto + 22' 04"8 Gong Hyo-SukSeoul Cycling Team + 22' 58"9 Ng Yong LiMeitan Hompo-GDR + 23' 02"10 Amir Zargari + 23' 16"
Team classification TeamTime194h 20' 36"2 + 10' 27"3 + 12' 22"4 + 21' 42"5South Africa + 22' 24"6 + 25' 26"7SouthAustralia.com–AIS + 28' 08"8Seoul Cycling Team + 28' 29"9 + 28' 39"10Meitan Hompo-GDR + 31' 23"
Asian team classification TeamTime1Seoul Cycling Team94h 49' 05"2Meitan Hompo-GDR + 02' 54"3 + 26' 06"4Malaysia + 32' 05"5Polygon Sweet Nice + 32' 51"
List of teams and riders A total of 25 teams were invited to participate in the 2008 Tour de Langkawi. Out of the 148 riders, a total of 131 riders made it to the finish in Kuala Lumpur.
Simon Gerrans Sébastien Hinault Jeremy Hunt Jean-Marc Marino Maxime Méderel Nicolas Roche
José Serpa Danilo Hondo Ruslan Ivanov Carlos José Ochoa Jackson Rodríguez Denis Bertolini South Africa Ian McCleod David George Waylon Woolcock Jacobus Venter Nolan Hoffman Dennis van Niekerk
Stefan Loefler Alex Coutts Erik Hoffmann Lai Kuan-Hua Peng Kuei-Hsiang
Pavel Brutt Serguei Klimov Alberto Loddo Walter Pedraza Yauhen Sobal Nikolai Trusov
Hidenori Nodera Tomoya Kano Yoshimasa Hirose Yusuke Hatanaka Yoshiyuki Abe Yoshinori Iino
Mathieu Claude Stef Clement Aurélien Clerc Rony Martias Matthieu Sprick Johann Tschopp
Alexandre Usov Tanel Kangert Cédric Pineau Jean-Charles Sénac Blaise Sonnery Stijn Vandenberg
Guillermo Bongiorno Julio Alberto Pérez Mauro Abel Richeze Filippo Savini Francesco Tomei Matteo Priamo
David García Dapena Gustavo César Ramon Troncoso Juan Mouron Alejandro Paleo Vladimir Isaichev
Matthew Wilson Benjamin Brooks Fabio Cazabria Glen Chadwick Moisés Aldape Ian MacGregor
Enrico Rossi Marco Corsini Massimiliano Maisto Stefan Trafelet Diego Nosotti Team ISTA Rolf Hofbauer Nico Keinath Joerg Lehmann Christoph Meschenmoser Robin Schmuda Nikolai Schwarz SouthAustralia.com–AIS Simon Clarke Zakkari Dempster William Ford Benjamin King Wesley Sulzberger Johnnie Walker
Meitan Hompo-GDR Yukiya Arashiro Koji Fukushima Shinichi Fukushima Takashi Miyazawa Miyataka Shimizu Ng Yong Li
Jai Crawford Serguei Kudentsov Li Fuyu Xing Yandong Loh Sea Keong Ken Onodera
Abbas Saeidi Tanha Amir Zargari Hassan Maleki Mehdi Faridi Mehdi Sohrabi Farshad Salehian
Anuar Manan Ahmad Haidar Anuawar Bernard Sulzberger Mohd Sayuti Mohd Zahit Tonton Susanto Ariehan Ryan Polygon Sweet Nice Hari Fitrianto Rizza Abdullah Pahlavi Vyacheslav Dyadichkin Herwin Jaya Vladimir Lopez Budi Santoso Seoul Cycling Team Park Sung-Baek Park Seon-Ho Gong Hyo-Suk Lee Won-Jae Yoo Ki-Hong Kim Gu-Hyeon
MNCF Cycling Team Amir Mustafa Rusli Mohd Jasmin Ruslan Mohd Saiful Anuar Abd Aziz Mohamed Harrif Salleh Thum Weng Kin Harnizam Basri
Stuart Shaw Peter McDonald Mitchell Docker Robert Williams Gene Bates Mark O'Brien New Zealand Jeremy Yates Justin Kerr Ashley Whitehead Paul Odlin Scott Lyttle Joseph Chapman Hong Kong Chan Chun Hing Wu Kin San Lam Kai Tsun Tang Wang Yip Ko Siu Wai Yeung Ying Hon Malaysia Suhardi Hassan Muhammad Fauzan Ahmad Lutfi Mohamed Zamri Salleh Mohd Rauf Nur Misbah Mohd Faris Abd Razak Muhamad Firdaus Daud
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