The 2009 Tour de Langkawi was the 14th edition of the Tour de Langkawi, a cycling stage race that took place in Malaysia. The race began on 9 February in Putrajaya and ended on 15 February in Dataran Merdeka, Kuala Lumpur. In fact this race was sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 2.HC (hors category) race on the 2008–09 UCI Asia Tour calendar.
Colombian cyclist, José Serpa emerged as the winner of the race, followed by Jai Crawford second and Jackson Rodríguez third. Mattia Gavazzi won the points classification category and José Serpa won the mountains classification category. won the team classification category.
Teams 20 teams accepted invitations to participate in the 2009 Tour de Langkawi.
EQA-Meitan Hompo-Graphite Design Seoul Cycling Team Doha Team
MNCF Cycling Team Malaysia ‡ Australia ‡ South Africa ‡ Iran ‡ Kazakhstan China ‡
‡: National teams
Stages The cyclists competed in 7 stages, covering a distance of 1031.7 kilometres. StageDateCourseDistanceStage resultWinnerSecondThird19 February Putrajaya to Senawang210 February Senawang to Malacca311 February Malacca412 February Malacca to Bangi513 February Petaling Jaya to Genting Highlands614 February Batang Kali to Shah Alam715 February Kuala Lumpur Criterium
Classification leadership StageWinnerGeneral classificationPoints classificationMountains classificationAsian rider classificationTeam classificationAsian team classification1Mattia GavazziMattia GavazziMattia GavazziJaco VenterDmitriy GruzdevSouth AfricaMalaysia2Mattia GavazziJacques Janse van Rensburg3Mattia Gavazzi4Samai AmariJeremy YatesSamai AmariEQA-Meitan Hompo-Graphite Design5José SerpaJosé SerpaJosé SerpaTonton SusantoIran6Mattia Gavazzi7Yohann Gène FinalJosé SerpaMattia GavazziJosé SerpaTonton SusantoIran
Final standings
General classification RiderTeamTime1 24h 22' 12"2 Australia + 27"3 + 47"4 + 54"5 + 01' 22"6 South Africa + 02' 29"7 + 02' 44"8 + 03' 16"9 + 03' 37"10 Australia + 03' 44"
Points classification RiderTeamPoints1 Mattia Gavazzi 972 Nolan HoffmanSouth Africa 823 Aurélien Clerc 624 Chris Sutton 495 Hilton Clarke 376 René Haselbacher 347 Miyataka ShimizuEQA-Meitan Hompo-Graphite Design 338 Yukiya Arashiro 309 Christoff Van HeerdenSouth Africa 2710 Daniel Musiol 27
Mountains classification RiderTeamPoints1 José Serpa 252 Jai CrawfordAustralia 223 Jackson Rodríguez 204 Jeremy Yates 175 Jacques Janse van RensburgSouth Africa 126 Fredrik Kessiakoff 127 Christoff Van HeerdenSouth Africa 118 Johann Tschopp 109 Carlos José Ochoa 810 Tonton Susanto 5
Asian rider classification RiderTeamTime1 Tonton Susanto 24h 24' 56"2 Hossein AskariIran + 02' 13"3 Gong Hyo-SukSeoul Cycling Team + 03' 12"4 Ghader MizbaniIran + 03' 37"5 Ji JianhuaChina + 03' 58"6 Alexandr ShushemoinKazakhstan + 04' 13"7 Hong Yoo-KiSeoul Cycling Team + 06' 17"8 Nazar JumabekovKazakhstan + 06' 20"9 Shinichi FukushimaEQA-Meitan Hompo-Graphite Design + 07' 03"10 Roman ZhiyentayevKazakhstan + 07' 35"
Team classification TeamTime1 73h 09' 16"2Australia + 07' 19"3Fuji–Servetto + 11' 19"4Cervélo TestTeam + 11' 30"5 + 15' 14"6South Africa + 18' 32"7Iran + 19' 04"8 + 20' 45"9 + 22' 22"10Kazakhstan + 23' 24"
Asian team classification TeamTime1Iran 73h 28' 20" 2 + 03' 18"3Kazakhstan + 04' 20"4Seoul Cycling Team + 05' 17"5EQA-Meitan Hompo-Graphite Design + 13' 23"6China + 14' 33"7MNCF Cycling Team + 18' 33"8Malaysia + 50' 09"
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