The 2000 Tour de Langkawi was the 5th edition of the Tour de Langkawi, a cycling stage race that took place in Malaysia. It began with a prologue criterium on 25 January in Langkawi and ended on 6 February in Kuala Lumpur. In fact, this race was rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 2.4 category race.
Chris Horner of USA won the race, followed by Julio Alberto Pérez of Mexico second and Fortunato Baliani of Italy third. Gordon Fraser won the points classification category and Julio Alberto Pérez won the mountains classification category. Mercury won the team classification category.
Stages The cyclists competed in 12 stages, covering a distance of 1,604.9 kilometres. Prologue did not count towards the overall but many riders competed in the stage. StageDateCourseDistanceStage resultWinnerSecondThirdP25 JanuaryLangkawi Criterium 126 JanuaryLangkawi Individual time trial227 JanuaryAlor Setar to Batu Ferringhi328 JanuaryTaiping to Sitiawan429 JanuaryLumut to Tanah Rata530 JanuaryTapah to Bentong631 JanuaryBentong to Kuantan71 FebruaryKuantan to Kuala Rompin82 FebruaryMersing to Malacca93 FebruaryMalacca to Kajang 104 FebruaryKL Tower to Genting Highlands115 FebruaryShah Alam 126 FebruaryKuala Lumpur Criterium
Classification leadership StageStage winnerGeneral classificationPoints classificationMountains classificationAsian rider classificationTeam classificationAsian team classification1Floyd LandisFloyd LandisFloyd LandisFloyd LandisMakoto IijimaSaturnJapan2Jamie DrewDaniele ContriniDaniele ContriniGraziano Recinella 3Damien NazonGordon Fraser4Wong Kam-poMark WaltersJulio Alberto PérezWong Kam-po5Glen MitchellLennie Kristensen6Antonio CruzChris Horner7Ivan Quaranta8Ivan Quaranta9Guido Trenti10Julio Alberto PérezJulio Alberto PérezMercury11Ivan Quaranta12Jan Bratkowski FinalChris HornerGordon FraserJulio Alberto PérezWong Kam-poMercuryJapan
Final standings
General classification Rider Team Time1 Mercury 38h 34' 39"2 + 27"3 + 29"4 Linda McCartney Cycling Team + 01' 05"5 Mercury + 01' 48"6 Denmark + 01' 50"7 + 02' 02"8 + 02' 04"9 Saturn + 02' 25"10 + 02' 27"
Points classification Rider Team Points1 Mercury 1112 873 824 585 556 Telekom Malaysia All-Stars 527 South Africa 508 Saturn 489 419 Mercury 41
Mountains classification Rider Team Points1 662 Denmark 573 Mercury 344 Canada 345 Telekom Malaysia All-Stars 316 307 Linda McCartney Cycling Team 208 209 Mercury 1710 16
Asian rider classification Rider Team Time1 Telekom Malaysia All-Stars 38h 41' 16"2 Malaysia + 03' 39"3 Japan + 04' 35"4 Philippines + 06' 14"5 Japan + 07' 54"6 Japan + 18' 34"7 Malaysia + 19' 47"8 Philippines + 20' 01"9 China + 20' 16"10 Japan + 22' 44"
Team classification Team Time1 Mercury 115h 44' 59"2 South Africa + 38"3 Saturn + 03' 08"4 Linda McCartney Cycling Team + 04' 03"5 Denmark + 05' 05"6 + 05' 56"7 + 10' 02"8 Canada + 18' 49"9 + 26' 14"10 Japan + 31' 22"
Asian team classification Team Time1 Japan 116h 16' 21"2 Philippines + 32' 21"3 Malaysia + 38' 28"4 China + 1h 25' 08"5 Indonesia + 2h 23' 50"
List of teams and riders A total of 25 teams were invited to participate in the 2000 Tour de Langkawi. Out of the 149 riders, a total of 126 riders made it to the finish in Kuala Lumpur.
Sergei Ivanov Dave Bruylandts Jans Koerts Michel Lafis Glenn Magnusson Koos Moerenhout
Guido Trenti Marco Di Renzo Federico Giabbecucci Emanuele Negrini Germano Pierdomenico
Daniele Contrini Fabio Marchesin Christian Morini Giancarlo Raimondi Ellis Rastelli Gorazd Štangelj
Julio Alberto Pérez Luca Cei Enrico Degano Nathan O'Neill Tom Leaper Vladimir Duma
Thierry Gouvenou Alexei Sivakov Lylian Lebreton Oleg Joukov Loic Lamouller Denis Leproux
Matthias Buxhofer Dominique Perras Alexandre Usov René Stadelmann Jochen Summer Jérôme Delbove
Jacek Mickiewicz Piotr Chmielewski Grzegorz Wajs Dariusz Wojciechowski Arkadiusz Wojtas Sebastian Wolski
Saturn Frank McCormack Antonio Cruz Mark McCormack Chris Wherry Michael Barry Trent Klasna Linda McCartney Cycling Team Benjamin Brooks David McKenzie Bjørnar Vestøl Matthew Stephens Ciarán Power Spencer Smith Telekom Malaysia All-Stars Graeme Miller Glen Mitchell Wong Kam-po Nor Effandy Rosli John Talen Franky Van Haesebroucke
Evgeni Berzin Ivan Quaranta Corrado Serina Alberto Ongarato Graziano Recinella Serguei Lelekin
Frédéric Gabriel Pascal Deramé Christophe Faudot Damien Nazon Mickaël Pichon Walter Bénéteau
Torsten Schmidt Sven Teutenberg Peter Wrolich Volker Ordowski Uwe Peschel René Haselbacher
Mercury Henk Vogels Jan Bratkowski Gordon Fraser Chris Horner Floyd Landis Steve Zampeiri
Danny Baeyens Tony Bracke Eric De Clercq Dirk Aernouts Koen Deschuytter Oleg Pankov
Chepe González Fortunato Baliani Gianluca Tonetti Andrea Paluan Andris Naudužs Jamie Drew Malaysia Sharulneeza Razali Tsen Seong Hoong Wong Ah Thiam Musairi Musa Mohd Mahazir Hamad Mohd Suhaimi Keton South Africa Daniel Spence Tiaan Kannemeyer Ryan Cox Simon Kessler Kosie Loubser Douglas Ryder Indonesia Sulistiono Sulistiono Wawan Setyobudi Hengky Setiawan Agung Joni Suryo Suyitno Suyitno Herry Janto Setiawan
China Li Fuyu Feng Luanyun Li Fuji Wong Guozhang Xiao Yechen Zhu Yongbiao Denmark Lennie Kristensen Morten Sonne Martin Kryger Jan Jespersen Dennis Rasmussen Stig Dam Japan Makoto Iijima Yasutaka Tashiro Hidenori Nodera Hideto Yukinari Yoshimasa Hirose Yasuhiro Yamamoto Philippines Victor Espiritu Warren Davadilla Arnel Quirimit Enrique Domingo Villamor Baluyut Merculio Ramos Canada Eric Wohlberg Mark Walters Paul Kelly Mat Anand Sylvain Beauchamp Peter Wedge Nürnberger Artour Babaitsev Christoph Goehring Alexander Kastenhuber Roland Mueller Heinrich Trumheller Jürgen Werner
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