The 2008 Jelajah Malaysia, a cycling stage race that took place in Malaysia. It was held from 7 to 13 January 2008. There were seven stages with a total of 1,352.2 kilometres. In fact, the race was sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale as a 2.2 category race and was part of the 2007–08 UCI Asia Tour calendar.
Tonton Susanto of Indonesia won the race, followed by Ghader Mizbani of Iran second and Fredrik Johansson of Sweden third overall. Anuar Manan of Malaysia won the points classification and Hossein Askari of Iran won the mountains classification. won the team classification.
A total of 20 teams were invited to participate in the 2008 Jelajah Malaysia. Out of 120 riders, a total of 91 riders made it to the finish in Kuala Lumpur.
Stages StageDateCourseDistanceStage resultWinnerSecondThird17 JanuaryPutrajaya to Port Dickson28 JanuarySeremban to Malacca39 JanuaryMalacca to Batu Pahat410 January Batu Pahat to Muar511 JanuaryGemas to Karak612 January Kuala Kubu Bharu to Genting Highlands713 January Kuala Lumpur Criterium
Classification leadership StageStage winnerGeneral classificationPoints classificationMountains classificationMalaysian rider classificationTeam classification1Li FuyuLi FuyuAnuar MananHossein AskariAmir RusliTeam Stegcomputer-CKT-Cogeas2Anuar Manan3Anuar Manan4Fredrik JohanssonTonton SusantoSuhardi HassanJapan5Anuar Manan6Hossein Askari7Yusuke Hatanaka FinalTonton SusantoAnuar MananHossein AskariSuhardi Hassan
Final standings
General classification Rider Team Time1 Tonton Susanto 21h 32' 38"2 Ghader Mizbani + 11"3 Fredrik Johansson + 04' 16"4 Hossein Askari + 05' 11"5 Suhardi Hassan Kuala Lumpur + 06' 22"6 Dimitri Jiriakov Team Stegcomputer-CKT-Cogeas + 07' 01"7 Paul Griffin + 07' 08"8 Hari Fitrianto Polygon Sweet Nice + 08' 14"9 Mohd Fauzan Ahmad Lutfi Majlis Sukan Negara Malaysia + 08' 15"10 David McCann + 08' 42"
Points classification Rider Team Points1 Anuar Manan 292 Hossein Jahanbanian 213 Suhardi Hassan Kuala Lumpur 154 Makoto Iijima Japan 135 Mohd Sayuti Mohd Zahit 126 Mohamed Harrif Salleh MNCF Continental Team 127 Abbas Saeidi Tanha 88 Jacob Nielsen Team Farso 69 Shinpei Fukuda Japan 610 Mohamed Zamri Salleh Majlis Sukan Negara Malaysia 6
Mountains classification Rider Team Points1 Hossein Askari 162 Tonton Susanto 83 David McCann 64 Paul Griffin 55 Farshad Salehian 36 Agung Ali Sahbana Indonesia 37 Ghader Mizbani 38 Dimitri Jiriakov Team Stegcomputer-CKT-Cogeas39 Suhardi Hassan Kuala Lumpur 210 Hari Fitrianto Polygon Sweet Nice 2
Malaysian rider classification Rider Team Time1 Suhardi Hassan Kuala Lumpur 21h 39' 00"2 Mohd Fauzan Ahmad Lutfi Majlis Sukan Negara Malaysia + 01' 53"3 Loh Sea Keong + 07' 15"4 Mohd Rauf Nor Misbah Majlis Sukan Negara Malaysia + 07' 22"5 Mohd Faris Abd Razak Majlis Sukan Negara Malaysia + 07' 43"6 Weng Kin Thum MNCF Continental Team + 08' 39"7 Amir Rusli MNCF Continental Team + 09' 57"8 Mohd Saiful Anuar Aziz MNCF Continental Team + 11' 55"9 Mohd Nor Umardi Rosdi Putrajaya Cycling Team + 12' 01"10 Ahmad Haidar Anuawar + 13' 01"
Team classification Team Time1 64h 54' 33"2 Japan + 09' 35"3 + 09' 50"4 + 16' 47"5 Majlis Sukan Negara Malaysia + 19' 32"6 + 21' 27"7 Polygon Sweet Nice + 22' 00"8 + 22' 34"9 + 23' 35"10 Team Stegcomputer-CKT-Cogeas + 27' 04"
Stage results
Stage 1 7 January 2008 — Putrajaya to Port Dickson, Rider Team Time1 Li Fuyu 04h 12' 19"2 Marcel Strauss Team Stegcomputer-CKT-Cogeas s.t.3 Jacob Nielsen Team Farso s.t.4 Paul Griffin s.t.5 Hossein Askari s.t.6 Dimitri Jiriakov Team Stegcomputer-CKT-Cogeas s.t.7 Makoto Iijima Bridgestone Anchor + 01' 07"8 Mehdi Sohrabi s.t.9 Ryan Ariehan s.t.10 Taufik Mohamad Benteng Muda Selangor Cycling Team s.t.
Stage 2 8 January 2008 — Seremban to Malacca, Rider Team Time1 Anuar Manan 03h 07' 55"2 Serguei Kudentsov s.t.3 Kohei Uchima Japan s.t.4 Mohamed Harrif Salleh MNCF Continental Team s.t.5 Mohamed Zamri Salleh Malaysia s.t.6 Li Fuyu s.t.7 Shinpei Fukuda Bridgestone Anchor s.t.8 Masakazu Ito Japan s.t.9 Hossein Nateghi s.t.10 Lex Nederlof Putrajaya Cycling Team s.t.
Stage 3 9 January 2008 — Malacca to Batu Pahat, Rider Team Time1 Anuar Manan 03h 55' 35"2 Hossein Nateghi s.t.3 Serguei Kudentsov s.t.4 Stefan Löffler s.t.5 Kohei Uchima Japan s.t.6 Suhardi Hassan Kuala Lumpur s.t.7 Shinpei Fukuda Bridgestone Anchor s.t.8 Tjarco Cuppens s.t.9 Heksa Priya Prasetya Indonesia s.t.10 Mohammad Akmal Amrun MNCF Continental Team s.t.
Stage 4 10 January 2008 — Batu Pahat to Muar, Rider Team Time1 Fredrik Johansson 04h 04' 31"2 Kohei Uchima Japan + 03"3 Tonton Susanto s.t.4 Lam Kai Tsun s.t.5 Suhardi Hassan Kuala Lumpur s.t.6 Abbas Saeidi Tanha s.t.7 Ghader Mizbani s.t.8 Kazushige Kuboki Japan s.t.9 Tomoya Kano s.t.10 Masakazu Ito Japan s.t.
Stage 5 11 January 2008 — Gemas to Karak, Rider Team Time1 Anuar Manan 03h 00' 54"2 Hossein Nateghi s.t.3 Cyrille Heymanns s.t.4 Mehdi Sohrabi s.t.5 Tjarco Cuppens s.t.6 Masahiko Mifune Matrix Powertag s.t.7 Li Fuyu s.t.8 Lam Kai Tsun s.t.9 Lex Nederlof Putrajaya Cycling Team s.t.10 Mohamed Harrif Salleh MNCF Continental Team s.t.
Stage 6 12 January 2008 — Kuala Kubu Bharu to Genting Highlands, Rider Team Time1 Hossein Askari 03h 10' 11"2 David McCann + 10"3 Tonton Susanto + 12"4 Ghader Mizbani + 14"5 Hari Fitrianto Polygon Sweet Nice + 01' 37"6 Dimitri Jiriakov Team Stegcomputer-CKT-Cogeas s.t.7 Mohd Fauzan Ahmad Lutfi Majlis Sukan Negara Malaysia + 01' 41"8 Paul Griffin + 01' 46"9 Liu Yilin + 01' 59"10 Søren Petersen Team Farso + 02' 22"
Stage 7 13 January 2008 — Kuala Lumpur Criterium, Rider Team Time1 Yusuke Hatanaka 01h 07' 57"2 Hossein Nateghi s.t.3 Hari Fitrianto Polygon Sweet Nice s.t.4 Mohd Rauf Nor Misbah Majlis Sukan Negara Malaysia s.t.5 Stefan Löffler + 17"6 Ahmad Haidar Anuawar s.t.7 Cyrille Heymanns s.t.8 Masahiko Mifune Matrix Powertag s.t.9 Mohamed Harrif Salleh MNCF Continental Team s.t.10 Mehdi Sohrabi s.t.
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