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2008 Tour de Langkawi

Field	Value
name	2008 Tour de Langkawi
series	2007–08 UCI Asia Tour
race_no	9
season_no	26
image_size	350px
date	9–17 February 2008
stages	9
distance	1377.4
unit	km
time	31h 20' 28"
first	Ruslan Ivanov
first_nat	MDA
first_color	yellow
first_team
second	Matthieu Sprick
second_nat	FRA
second_team
third	Gustavo César
third_nat	ESP
third_team
points	Aurélien Clerc
points_nat	SUI
points_color	green
points_team
mountains	Filippo Savini
mountains_nat	ITA
mountains_color	polkadot
mountains_team
team
previous	2007
next	2009

The 2008 Tour de Langkawi was the 13th edition of the Tour de Langkawi, a cycling stage race that took place in Malaysia. It started on 9 February in Alor Setar and ended on 17 February in Kuala Lumpur. This race was rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 2.HC race category and was highest ranked stage race on the 2007–08 UCI Asia Tour.

Moldova's Ruslan Ivanov emerged as the winner of the race, followed by Matthieu Sprick second and Gustavo César third. Aurélien Clerc won the points classification category and Filippo Savini won the mountains classification category. won the team classification category.

Stages

The cyclists competed in 9 stages, covering a distance of 1,377.4 kilometres. The route for the Tour was unveiled on 17 December 2007 and revised on 31 December 2007. The traditional final race, criterium in Merdeka Square was also brought back to the race schedule. On January 23, 2008, it was announced that the route for Stage 8 Maran to Genting Highlands had been replaced with a route from Temerloh to Fraser's Hill due to the cyclist's safety reason. For the first time in the Tour's history, Genting Highlands route was not included in the race schedule.

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Stage result	Winner
9 February	Alor Setar to Kepala Batas	182.6 km	Matthieu Sprick	Mitchell Docker	Diego Nosotti
10 February	Butterworth to Sitiawan	159.7 km	Jeremy Hunt	Matteo Priamo	Gustavo César
11 February	Sitiawan to Banting	209.4 km	Lee Won-Jae	Anuar Manan	Xing Yandong
12 February	Port Dickson to Batu Pahat	169 km	Danilo Hondo	Mauro Abel Richeze	Marco Corsini
13 February	Johor Bahru to Bandar Penawar	139.9 km	Alberto Loddo	Mauro Abel Richeze	Aurélien Clerc
14 February	Bandar Penawar to Kuala Rompin	182.8 km	José Serpa	Alexandre Usov	Johnnie Walker
15 February	Kuala Rompin to Kuantan	126.6 km	Alexandre Usov	Hassan Maleki	Takashi Miyazawa
16 February	Temerloh to Fraser's Hill	127 km	Filippo Savini	Ruslan Ivanov	José Serpa
17 February	Merdeka Square, Kuala Lumpur Criterium	80.4 km	Mauro Abel Richeze	Jeremy Hunt	Enrico Rossi

Classification leadership

Stage	Winner	General classification
[[Image:Jersey yellow.svg	25px	Yellow jersey]]	Points classification
[[Image:Jersey green.svg	25px	Green jersey]]	Mountains classification
[[Image:Jersey polkadot.svg	25px	Polka-dotted jersey]]	Asian rider classification	Team classification	Asian team classification	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Final	Ruslan Ivanov	Aurélien Clerc	Filippo Savini
Matthieu Sprick	Matthieu Sprick	Mitchell Docker	not available	Shinichi Fukushima		Seoul Cycling Team
Jeremy Hunt	Gustavo César	Meitan Hompo-GDR
Lee Won-Jae	Anuar Manan
Danilo Hondo
Alberto Loddo	Aurélien Clerc
José Serpa	Christoph Meschenmoser	Park Sung-Baek	Seoul Cycling Team
Alexandre Usov	Mitchell Docker
Filippo Savini	Ruslan Ivanov	Filippo Savini	Shinichi Fukushima
Mauro Abel Richeze
Shinichi Fukushima	Seoul Cycling Team

Final standings

General classification

Rider	Team	Time
1	Ruslan Ivanov [[Image:Jersey yellow.svg	20px	Yellow jersey]]
2	Matthieu Sprick
3	Gustavo César
4	Jeremy Yates	New Zealand
5	Yauhen Sobal
6	Mitchell Docker
7	Jackson Rodríguez
8	Jean-Marc Marino
9	Ian McCleod	South Africa
10	Matt Wilson

Points classification

Rider	Team	Points
1	SUI Aurélien Clerc [[Image:Jersey blue.svg	20px	Blue jersey]]
2	MAS Anuar Manan
3	BLR Alexandre Usov
4	KOR Park Sung-Baek	Seoul Cycling Team
5	ITA Marco Corsini
6	ITA Enrico Rossi
7	JPN Takashi Miyazawa	Meitan Hompo-GDR
8	GBR Jeremy Hunt
9	FRA Sébastien Hinault
10	RSA Nolan Hoffman	South Africa

Mountains classification

Rider	Team	Points
1	ITA Filippo Savini [[Image:Jersey polkadot.svg	20px	Polka-dotted jersey]]
2	MDA Ruslan Ivanov
3	COL José Serpa
4	VEN Carlos José Ochoa
5	COL Walter Pedraza
6	NZL Jeremy Yates	New Zealand
7	ESP Gustavo César
8	FRA Matthieu Sprick
9	GER Christoph Meschenmoser	Team ISTA
10	IRI Mehdi Faridi

Asian rider classification

Rider	Team	Time
1	JPN Shinichi Fukushima	Meitan Hompo-GDR
2	JPN Tomoya Kano
3	JPN Hidenori Nodera
4	KOR Park Sung-Baek	Seoul Cycling Team
5	KOR Kim Gu-Hyeon	Seoul Cycling Team
6	IRI Mehdi Faridi
7	INA Tonton Susanto
8	KOR Gong Hyo-Suk	Seoul Cycling Team
9	MAS Ng Yong Li	Meitan Hompo-GDR
10	IRI Amir Zargari

Team classification

Team	Time
1
2
3
4
5	South Africa
6
7	SouthAustralia.com–AIS
8	Seoul Cycling Team
9
10	Meitan Hompo-GDR

Asian team classification

Team	Time
1	Seoul Cycling Team
2	Meitan Hompo-GDR
3
4	Malaysia
5	Polygon Sweet Nice

List of teams and riders

A total of 25 teams were invited to participate in the 2008 Tour de Langkawi. Out of the 148 riders, a total of 131 riders made it to the finish in Kuala Lumpur. ;

AUS Simon Gerrans
FRA Sébastien Hinault
GBR Jeremy Hunt
FRA Jean-Marc Marino
FRA Maxime Méderel
IRL Nicolas Roche ;
COL José Serpa
GER Danilo Hondo
MDA Ruslan Ivanov
VEN Carlos José Ochoa
VEN Jackson Rodríguez
ITA Denis Bertolini ;South Africa
RSA Ian McCleod
RSA David George
RSA Waylon Woolcock
RSA Jacobus Venter
RSA Nolan Hoffman
RSA Dennis van Niekerk ;
GER Stefan Loefler
GBR Alex Coutts
GER Erik Hoffmann
TPE Lai Kuan-Hua
TPE Peng Kuei-Hsiang ;
RUS Pavel Brutt
RUS Serguei Klimov
ITA Alberto Loddo
COL Walter Pedraza
BLR Yauhen Sobal
RUS Nikolai Trusov ;
JPN Hidenori Nodera
JPN Tomoya Kano
JPN Yoshimasa Hirose
JPN Yusuke Hatanaka
JPN Yoshiyuki Abe
JPN Yoshinori Iino ;
FRA Mathieu Claude
NED Stef Clement
CHE Aurélien Clerc
FRA Rony Martias
FRA Matthieu Sprick
CHE Johann Tschopp ;
BLR Alexandre Usov
EST Tanel Kangert
FRA Cédric Pineau
FRA Jean-Charles Sénac
FRA Blaise Sonnery
BEL Stijn Vandenberg ;
ARG Guillermo Bongiorno
MEX Julio Alberto Pérez
ARG Mauro Abel Richeze
ITA Filippo Savini
ITA Francesco Tomei
ITA Matteo Priamo ;
ESP David García Dapena
ESP Gustavo César
ESP Ramon Troncoso
ESP Juan Mouron
ESP Alejandro Paleo
RUS Vladimir Isaichev ;
AUS Matthew Wilson
AUS Benjamin Brooks
AUS Fabio Cazabria
NZL Glen Chadwick
MEX Moisés Aldape
USA Ian MacGregor ;
ITA Enrico Rossi
ITA Marco Corsini
ITA Massimiliano Maisto
SUI Stefan Trafelet
ITA Diego Nosotti ;Team ISTA
GER Rolf Hofbauer
GER Nico Keinath
GER Joerg Lehmann
GER Christoph Meschenmoser
GER Robin Schmuda
GER Nikolai Schwarz ;SouthAustralia.com–AIS
AUS Simon Clarke
AUS Zakkari Dempster
AUS William Ford
AUS Benjamin King
AUS Wesley Sulzberger
AUS Johnnie Walker ;Meitan Hompo-GDR
JPN Yukiya Arashiro
JPN Koji Fukushima
JPN Shinichi Fukushima
JPN Takashi Miyazawa
JPN Miyataka Shimizu
MAS Ng Yong Li ;
AUS Jai Crawford
RUS Serguei Kudentsov
CHN Li Fuyu
CHN Xing Yandong
MAS Loh Sea Keong
JPN Ken Onodera ;
IRI Abbas Saeidi Tanha
IRI Amir Zargari
IRI Hassan Maleki
IRI Mehdi Faridi
IRI Mehdi Sohrabi
IRI Farshad Salehian ;
MAS Anuar Manan
MAS Ahmad Haidar Anuawar
AUS Bernard Sulzberger
MAS Mohd Sayuti Mohd Zahit
INA Tonton Susanto
INA Ariehan Ryan ;Polygon Sweet Nice
INA Hari Fitrianto
INA Rizza Abdullah Pahlavi
KAZ Vyacheslav Dyadichkin
INA Herwin Jaya
COL Vladimir Lopez
INA Budi Santoso ;Seoul Cycling Team
KOR Park Sung-Baek
KOR Park Seon-Ho
KOR Gong Hyo-Suk
KOR Lee Won-Jae
KOR Yoo Ki-Hong
KOR Kim Gu-Hyeon ;MNCF Cycling Team
MAS Amir Mustafa Rusli
MAS Mohd Jasmin Ruslan
MAS Mohd Saiful Anuar Abd Aziz
MAS Mohamed Harrif Salleh
MAS Thum Weng Kin
MAS Harnizam Basri ;
AUS Stuart Shaw
AUS Peter McDonald
AUS Mitchell Docker
AUS Robert Williams
AUS Gene Bates
AUS Mark O'Brien ;New Zealand
NZL Jeremy Yates
NZL Justin Kerr
NZL Ashley Whitehead
NZL Paul Odlin
NZL Scott Lyttle
NZL Joseph Chapman ;Hong Kong
HKG Chan Chun Hing
HKG Wu Kin San
HKG Lam Kai Tsun
HKG Tang Wang Yip
HKG Ko Siu Wai
HKG Yeung Ying Hon ;Malaysia
MAS Suhardi Hassan
MAS Muhammad Fauzan Ahmad Lutfi
MAS Mohamed Zamri Salleh
MAS Mohd Rauf Nur Misbah
MAS Mohd Faris Abd Razak
MAS Muhamad Firdaus Daud

References

"2008 Tour de Langkawi at cyclingnews.com". cyclingnews.com.
"2008 Tour de Langkawi — Stages". cyclingarchives.com.
"2008 Tour de Langkawi Results". ltdl.com.my.
Samuel, Eric. (23 January 2008). "No Genting stage for this year's Tour of Langkawi". The Star Online.

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