2000 Tour de Langkawi

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.^[1][2][3]

2000 Tour de Langkawi

Race details
Dates	25 January–6 February 2000
Stages	12+Prologue
Distance	1,604.9 km (997.2 mi)
Winning time	38h 34' 39"
Results
Winner  Chris Horner (USA) (Mercury)   Second  Julio Alberto Pérez (MEX) (Ceramica Panaria–Gaerne)   Third  Fortunato Baliani (ITA) (Aguardiente Néctar–Selle Italia) Points  Gordon Fraser (CAN) (Mercury) Mountains  Julio Alberto Pérez (MEX) (Ceramica Panaria–Gaerne)   Team Mercury
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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.^[1][2][3]

Stages

The cyclists competed in 12 stages, covering a distance of 1,604.9 kilometres.^[1][2][3] Prologue did not count towards the overall but many riders competed in the stage.^[4]

Stage	Date	Course	Distance	Stage result
				Winner	Second	Third
P	25 January	Langkawi Criterium	50 km (31.1 mi)	Graeme Miller (NZL)	Jans Koerts (NED)	Jan Bratkowski (GER)
1	26 January	Langkawi Individual time trial	9.2 km (5.7 mi)	Floyd Landis (USA)	Frank McCormack (USA)	Daniele Contrini (ITA)
2	27 January	Alor Setar to Batu Ferringhi	173 km (107.5 mi)	Jamie Drew (AUS)	Daniele Contrini (ITA)	René Haselbacher (AUT)
3	28 January	Taiping to Sitiawan	86.1 km (53.5 mi)	Damien Nazon (FRA)	Gordon Fraser (CAN)	René Haselbacher (AUT)
4	29 January	Lumut to Tanah Rata	162 km (100.7 mi)	Wong Kam-po (HKG)	Mark Walters (CAN)	Julio Alberto Pérez (MEX)
5	30 January	Tapah to Bentong	168.9 km (104.9 mi)	Glen Mitchell (NZL)	Trent Klasna (USA)	Gordon Fraser (CAN)
6	31 January	Bentong to Kuantan	191.2 km (118.8 mi)	Antonio Cruz (USA)	Fortunato Baliani (ITA)	Chris Horner (USA)
7	1 February	Kuantan to Kuala Rompin	133.5 km (83.0 mi)	Ivan Quaranta (ITA)	Luca Cei (ITA)	Gordon Fraser (CAN)
8	2 February	Mersing to Malacca	244.8 km (152.1 mi)	Ivan Quaranta (ITA)	Gordon Fraser (CAN)	Sven Teutenberg (GER)
9	3 February	Malacca to Kajang	115.5 km (71.8 mi)	Guido Trenti (USA)	Henk Vogels (AUS)	Torsten Schmidt (GER)
10	4 February	KL Tower to Genting Highlands	111.3 km (69.2 mi)	Julio Alberto Pérez (MEX)	Matthew Stephens (GBR)	Walter Bénéteau (FRA)
11	5 February	Shah Alam	134.4 km (83.5 mi)	Ivan Quaranta (ITA)	Damien Nazon (FRA)	Gordon Fraser (CAN)
12	6 February	Kuala Lumpur Criterium	75.3 km (46.8 mi)	Jan Bratkowski (GER)	Antonio Cruz (USA)	Volker Ordowski (GER)

Classification leadership

Stage	Stage winner	General classification	Points classification	Mountains classification	Asian rider classification	Team classification	Asian team classification
1	Floyd Landis	Floyd Landis	Floyd Landis	Floyd Landis	Makoto Iijima	Saturn	Japan
2	Jamie Drew	Daniele Contrini	Daniele Contrini	Graziano Recinella
3	Damien Nazon		Gordon Fraser
4	Wong Kam-po	Mark Walters		Julio Alberto Pérez	Wong Kam-po
5	Glen Mitchell			Lennie Kristensen
6	Antonio Cruz	Chris Horner
7	Ivan Quaranta
8	Ivan Quaranta
9	Guido Trenti
10	Julio Alberto Pérez			Julio Alberto Pérez		Mercury
11	Ivan Quaranta
12	Jan Bratkowski
Final		Chris Horner	Gordon Fraser	Julio Alberto Pérez	Wong Kam-po	Mercury	Japan

Final standings

General classification

	Rider	Team	Time
1	Chris Horner (USA)	Mercury	38h 34' 39"
2	Julio Alberto Pérez (MEX)	Ceramica Panaria–Gaerne	+ 27"
3	Fortunato Baliani (ITA)	Aguardiente Néctar–Selle Italia	+ 29"
4	Matthew Stephens (GBR)	Linda McCartney Cycling Team	+ 01' 05"
5	Floyd Landis (USA)	Mercury	+ 01' 48"
6	Lennie Kristensen (DEN)	Denmark	+ 01' 50"
7	Graziano Recinella (ITA)	Mobilvetta Design–Rossin	+ 02' 02"
8	René Haselbacher (AUT)	Gerolsteiner	+ 02' 04"
9	Chris Wherry (USA)	Saturn	+ 02' 25"
10	Loic Lamouller (FRA)	BigMat–Auber 93	+ 02' 27"

Points classification

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Gordon Fraser (CAN)	Mercury	111
2	Guido Trenti (USA)	Cantina Tollo–Regain	87
3	René Haselbacher (GER)	Gerolsteiner	82
4	Jans Koerts (NED)	Farm Frites	58
5	Ivan Quaranta (ITA)	Mobilvetta Design–Rossin	55
6	Franky Van Haesebroucke (BEL)	Telekom Malaysia All-Stars	52
7	Kosie Loubser (RSA)	South Africa	50
8	Antonio Cruz (USA)	Saturn	48
9	Damien Nazon (FRA)	Bonjour	41
9	Jan Bratkowski (GER)	Mercury	41

Mountains classification

	Rider	Team	Points
1	Julio Alberto Pérez (MEX)	Ceramica Panaria–Gaerne	66
2	Lennie Kristensen (DEN)	Denmark	57
3	Floyd Landis (USA)	Mercury	34
4	Mark Walters (CAN)	Canada	34
5	Wong Kam-po (HKG)	Telekom Malaysia All-Stars	31
6	Graziano Recinella (ITA)	Mobilvetta Design–Rossin	30
7	Matthew Stephens (GBR)	Linda McCartney Cycling Team	20
8	Tom Leaper (AUS)	Ceramica Panaria–Gaerne	20
9	Chris Horner (USA)	Mercury	17
10	Walter Bénéteau (FRA)	Bonjour	16

Asian rider classification

	Rider	Team	Time
1	Wong Kam-po (HKG)	Telekom Malaysia All-Stars	38h 41' 16"
2	Sharulneeza Razali (MAS)	Malaysia	+ 03' 39"
3	Hidenori Nodera (JPN)	Japan	+ 04' 35"
4	Victor Espiritu (PHI)	Philippines	+ 06' 14"
5	Yasutaka Tashiro (JPN)	Japan	+ 07' 54"
6	Yoshimasa Hirose (JPN)	Japan	+ 18' 34"
7	Musairi Musa (MAS)	Malaysia	+ 19' 47"
8	Merculio Ramos (PHI)	Philippines	+ 20' 01"
9	Zhu Yongbiao (CHN)	China	+ 20' 16"
10	Makoto Iijima (JPN)	Japan	+ 22' 44"

Team classification

	Team	Time
1	Mercury	115h 44' 59"
2	South Africa	+ 38"
3	Saturn	+ 03' 08"
4	Linda McCartney Cycling Team	+ 04' 03"
5	Denmark	+ 05' 05"
6	Gerolsteiner	+ 05' 56"
7	Aguardiente Néctar–Selle Italia	+ 10' 02"
8	Canada	+ 18' 49"
9	BigMat–Auber 93	+ 26' 14"
10	Japan	+ 31' 22"

Asian team classification

	Team	Time
1	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.^[1][2][3]

Farm Frites Sergei Ivanov Dave Bruylandts Jans Koerts Michel Lafis Glenn Magnusson Koos Moerenhout Cantina Tollo–Regain Guido Trenti Marco Di Renzo Federico Giabbecucci Emanuele Negrini Germano Pierdomenico Liquigas–Pata Daniele Contrini Fabio Marchesin Christian Morini Giancarlo Raimondi Ellis Rastelli Gorazd Štangelj Ceramica Panaria–Gaerne Julio Alberto Pérez Luca Cei Enrico Degano Nathan O'Neill Tom Leaper Vladimir Duma BigMat–Auber 93 Thierry Gouvenou Alexei Sivakov Lylian Lebreton Oleg Joukov Loic Lamouller Denis Leproux Phonak Matthias Buxhofer Dominique Perras Alexandre Usov René Stadelmann Jochen Summer Jérôme Delbove Mróz–Supradyn Witaminy 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 Mobilvetta Design–Rossin Evgeni Berzin Ivan Quaranta Corrado Serina Alberto Ongarato Graziano Recinella Serguei Lelekin Bonjour Frédéric Gabriel Pascal Deramé Christophe Faudot Damien Nazon Mickaël Pichon Walter Bénéteau Gerolsteiner 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 Collstrop–De Federale Verzekeringen Danny Baeyens Tony Bracke Eric De Clercq Dirk Aernouts Koen Deschuytter Oleg Pankov Aguardiente Néctar–Selle Italia 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