The 2006 Tour de Langkawi was the 11th edition of the Tour de Langkawi, a cycling stage race that took place in Malaysia. It started on 3 February in Kuala Lumpur and ended on 12 February in Kuala Lumpur. In fact, this race was rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 2.HC (hors category) race on the 2005–06 UCI Asia Tour calendar.
David George of South Africa won the race, followed by Francesco Bellotti of Italy second and Gabriele Missaglia of Italy third. Steffen Radochla of Germany won the points classification category and David George won the mountains classification category. South Africa won the team classification category.
Stages The cyclists competed in 10 stages, covering a distance of 1,161.4 kilometres. Due to the extreme weather conditions(heavy downpour) experienced during the Stage 10 of the 2006 Tour de Langkawi, the stage result was abandoned according to the decision of the College of Commissaires and the Race Organizer. All classification would be as at the end of Stage 9. However, Ángel Vallejo Domínguez () who had a substantial lone lead at the time of the decision abandon was made had been awarded the stage. StageDateCourseDistanceStage resultWinnerSecondThird13 FebruaryKL Tower to Rawang24 FebruaryTanjung Malim to Sitiawan35 FebruaryLumut to Cameron Highlands46 FebruaryTapah to Kuala Selangor57 FebruaryMenara Telekom to Genting Highlands68 FebruaryShah Alam to Tampin79 FebruaryMuar to Kota Tinggi810 FebruaryYong Peng to Segamat911 FebruaryMalacca Individual time trial1012 February Kuala Lumpur CriteriumNot awarded
Classification leadership StageStage winnerGeneral classificationPoints classificationMountains classificationAsian rider classificationTeam classificationAsian team classification1Maximiliano RichezeMaximiliano RichezeSteffen RadochlaFrancesco BellottiTakashi MiyazawaWismilak2Guillermo Bongiorno3Saul RaisinDavid GeorgeDarren LillJapan4José Serpa5José SerpaDavid GeorgeHossein Askari6Laurent Mangel7Elio Aggiano8Sébastien Hinault9Sergiy Matveyev10Ángel Vallejo Domínguez FinalDavid GeorgeSteffen RadochlaDavid GeorgeHossein AskariJapan
Final standings
General classification RiderTeamTime1 South Africa 26h 43' 55"2 + 01' 52"3 + 01' 56"4 + 02' 31"5 + 03' 11"6 + 04' 20"7 + 04' 41"8 + 04' 46"9 + 04' 57"10 + 05' 15"
Points classification RiderTeamPoints1 Wiesenhof–Akud772513 464 465466 Great Britain407 388379 371035
Mountains classification RiderTeamPoints1 South Africa372 South Africa353 304 285256247 238 Great Britain209 1810141014
Asian rider classification RiderTeamTime126h 59' 47"2Japan + 02' 11"3Japan + 02' 39"4 + 09' 16"5Équipe Asia + 09' 48"6Malaysia + 13' 17"7Malaysia + 18' 00"8Wismilak + 20' 18"9Malaysia + 20' 36"10Casino Filipino + 21' 00"
Team classification TeamTime180h 21' 01"2 + 02' 46"3South Africa + 12' 32"4 + 33' 01"5 + 37' 06"6 + 39' 57"7 + 40' 02"8 + 47' 00"9 + 56' 14"10 + 01h 04' 39"
Asian team classification TeamTime1Japan 81h 25' 50"2 + 04' 57"3Malaysia + 17' 55"4Wismilak + 25' 37"5Équipe Asia + 33' 17"6Casino Filipino + 01h 18' 01"
List of teams and riders A total of 20 teams were invited to participate in the 2006 Tour de Langkawi. Out of the 119 riders, a total of 102 riders made it to the finish in Kuala Lumpur.
South Africa Ryan Cox Jacques Fullard David George Rodney Green Darren Lill Jeremy Maartens
José Serpa Wladimir Belli Angelo Furlan Alberto Loddo Gabriele Missaglia Walter Pedraza Malaysia Shahrulneeza Razali Ahmad Fallanie Ali Mohd Fauzan Ahmad Lutfi Suhardi Hassan Mohd Jasmin Ruslan Mohd Sayuti Mohd Zahit
Stef Clement Andy Flickinger Yohann Gène Yoann Le Boulanger Laurent Lefèvre Anthony Ravard
Francesco Bellotti Sébastien Hinault Christophe Le Mével Cyril Lemoine Benoît Poilvet Saul Raisin
Julio Alberto Pérez Mirko Allegrini Guillermo Bongiorno Sergiy Matveyev Maximiliano Richeze Casino Filipino Victor Espiritu Bernardo Luzon Merculio Ramos Albert Primero Sherwin Carrera Sherwin Diamsay
Shawn Milne César Grajales Oleg Grishkin Bernard Van Ulden Burke Swindlehurst Mark Walters
Nácor Burgos José Miguel Elías Raúl García de Mateos Daniel Moreno Xavier Tondo Ángel Vallejo Domínguez
Ben Greenwood Kristian House Chris Newton Evan Oliphant Rob Partridge Robin Sharman
Yawadoo-Colba-ABM Gert Vanderaerden Koen Das Frederik Penne Gianni Riemslagh Frank Van Kuik Micheal Vanderaerden Great Britain Russell Downing Matt Brammeier Mark Cavendish Edward Clancy Geraint Thomas Julian Winn
Elio Aggiano Gene Bates Roger Beuchat Andreas Dietziker Massimo Iannetti Samuele Marzoli
Grégory Habeaux Jean-Claude Lebeau Filip Meirhaeghe Sven Renders David Verheyen Johan Verstrepen Équipe Asia Ng Yong Li Loh Sea Keong Mohd Saiful Anuar Aziz Yevgeniy Yakalov Vyacheslav Dyadichkin Hari Fitrianto
Renaud Dion Julien Loubet Laurent Mangel Carl Naibo Erki Pütsep Christophe Riblon Wismilak Tonton Susanto Wawan Setyobudi Sulisttiyono Sulisttiyono Matnur Matnur Sama'i Sama'i Adi Wibowo Wiesenhof–Akud Steffen Radochla Torsten Schmidt Robert Retschke Corey Sweet Tomáš Konečný Lars Wackernagel
Hossein Askari Paul Griffin Lau Kuan-hua David McCann Ghader Mizbani Peng Kuei-hsiang Japan Takumi Beppu Koji Fukushima Shinichi Fukushima Takashi Miyazawa Kazuhiro Mori Taiji Nishitani
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