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2007–08 UCI Asia Tour

Cycling competition

Field	Value
name	2007–08 UCI Asia Tour
edition	4
competition	UCI Asia Tour
dates	–15 September 2008
location	Asia
rounds	26
individual_champion	Hossein Askari
individual_champion_team
teams_champion
nations_champion	Japan
previous	2006–07
next	2008–09

The 2007–08 UCI Asia Tour was the 4th season of the UCI Asia Tour. The season began on 28 October 2007 with the Japan Cup and ended on 15 September 2008 with the Tour de Hokkaido.

The points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Asia Tour cycling jersey. Hossein Askari from Iran was the defending champion of the 2006–07 UCI Asia Tour and was crowned as the 2007–08 UCI Asia Tour champion.

Throughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determines how many points are awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points are awarded.

The UCI ratings from highest to lowest are as follows:

Multi-day events: 2.HC, 2.1 and 2.2
One-day events: 1.HC, 1.1 and 1.2

Events

2007

Date	Race name	Location	UCI Rating	Winner	Team
28 October	Japan Cup	Japan	1.1	Manuele Mori
3–10 November	Tour of Hainan	China	2.1	Robert Radosz
11 November	Tour de Okinawa	Japan	1.2	Takashi Miyazawa	Nippo Corporation-Meitan Honpo co. Ltd-Asada
16–21 December	Tour of Thailand		2.2	Ahad Kazemi	Tabriz Petrochemical Team
23–30 December	Tour of South China Sea	China
2.2	Tang Wang Yip	Hong Kong Pro Cycling

2008

Date	Race name	Location	UCI Rating	Winner	Team
7–13 January	Jelajah Malaysia		2.2	Tonton Susanto
26 January	H. H. Vice President Cup		1.2	Badr Mohamed Mirza Bani Hammad	Doha Team
27 January–1 February	Tour of Qatar		2.1	Tom Boonen
9–17 February	Tour de Langkawi		2.HC	Ruslan Ivanov
21–24 February	UAQ International Race		2.2	Hossein Askari
2–7 March	Taftan Tour		2.2	Hossein Nateghi
9–16 March	Tour de Taiwan		2.2	John Murphy
2–6 April	Tour de East Java		2.2	Ghader Mizbani
15 April	Asian Cycling Championships – Time trial	Japan	CC	Eugen Wacker	Kyrgyzstan (national team)
17 April	Asian Cycling Championships – Road race	Japan	CC	Fumiyuki Beppu	Japan (national team)
9–11 May	Tour de Kumano	Japan	2.2	Miyataka Shimizu	Meitan Hompo-GDR
9–13 May	President Tour of Iran		2.2	Ahad Kazemi
18–25 May	Tour of Japan	Japan	2.2	Cameron Meyer	Southaustralia.com–AIS
21–29 May	Azerbaïjan Tour		2.2	Hossein Askari
21 June–4 July	Tour de Korea-Japan
Japan	2.2	Sergey Lagutin
11–20 July	Tour of Qinghai Lake	China	2.HC	Tyler Hamilton
13–22 July	Way to Pekin	Russia	2.2	Sergey Firsanov	Rietumu Banka–Riga
19–20 July	His Excellency Gabenor of Malacca Cup		2.2	Mehdi Sohrabi
23–25 July	Jelajah Negeri Sembilan		2.2	Vadim Shaekhov	Uzbekistan (national team)
1–6 September	Tour of Thailand The Northern Adventure		2.2	Alex Coutts
11–15 September	Tour de Hokkaido	Japan	2.2	Takashi Miyazawa	Meitan Hompo-GDR

Final standings

Individual classification

Rank	Name	Team	Points
1.	Hossein Askari		240.66
2.	Ghader Mizbani		205.66
3.	Hossein Nateghi		204
4.	Mehdi Sohrabi		195
5.	Takashi Miyazawa	Meitan Hompo-GDR	192
6.	Ahad Kazemi		175.66
7.	Robert Radosz		163
8.	Tyler Hamilton		154
9.	Taiji Nishitani	Aisan Racing Team	132
10.	Sergey Lagutin		131

Team classification

Rank	Team	Points
1.		909.64
2.	Meitan Hompo-GDR	545
3.		338.6
4.		279
5.		278
6.		273
7.		252
8.	Aisan Racing Team	242
9.		204
10.	Katyusha	182

Nation classification

Rank	Nation	Points
1.	Japan	1181.2
2.		1160.98
3.		502.66
4.		401.66
5.	China	296
6.		269
7.		260
8.		248
9.		172
10.		157

Nation under-23 classification

Rank	Nation under-23	Points
1.		386
2.		233
3.		186
4.		106
5.		62
6.		48
7.	Japan	27
8.		22
9.		19
10.		16

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