Le Tour de Langkawi Special Edition
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Sunday, February 15th was the day for the 7th and final stage of Le Tour de Langkawi 2009. There would be 12-lap criterium racing covering approximately 80+ km [3:30pm to 5:15pm] around the city center of Kuala Lumpur. Start and Finish lines were at Merdeka Square [in front of the famous Sultan Abdul Samad Building]. AHW was one of the freelance photographers at LTdL 2009.
1:03pm - the sky was clear with little clouds. It was hot and humid. Preparation for the race was going on just after the roads had been temporarily closed to traffic. Everything needed to be done as quickly as possible. About two and a half hours to go.
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1:20pm - On Dataran Merdeka Padang some kind of carnival was going on and people started to form a flock.
mari! mari!! free roti...
While others waited patiently under the shade
2:00pm - teams arrived
and more people...
2:45pm - Traffic Policemen marched forwards to their designated road junctions to control/stop traffic flows along the racing route.
3:25pm - Cyclists took position at the START grid line.
3:30pm - the 7th and Last stage of Le Tour de Langkawi 2009 pushed off.
racing in motions, actions, e-motions, tensions... and lots of manipulations and calculations too.
muscles of cavlar or somethin'?
Laps after laps... kept on charging!
...and finally the expected winner, Gianni Savio's Diquigiovanni-Androni Gioccatoli team completed what was effectively the most dominant team performance ever in Le Tour de Langkawi (LTdL) with multiple titles in their bag after the final stage of the race, the Kuala Lumpur Criterium today.
also, Asia's Best Team
The Individual Winners - the yellow, green, red and blue jerseys
Gavazzi who won four of seven stages in LTdL 2009 sealed the green jersey (sprint) with 97 points, Nolan Hoffman settled in second place with 82 points
Jose Serpa Perez, who sealed the King of the Mountain (red polka dot jersey) on previous day stage 6 with 25 points, claimed the yellow jersey today.
The only other jersey, the VW blue jersey for the Asian riders' classification winner, was taken by Le Tua Cycling Team's veteran Indonesian rider Tonton Susanto, who bagged his third ever win in that classification after doing the same in 1999 and 2002.
Last, but not least Ahmad Haidar Anuar from the national team became the best local riders after finishing in seventh place, ahead of teammate Anuar Manan.
Click HERE for Earlier Stages
[All pictures by AHW - Wide angle shots were taken with Lumix LX-3 compact digicam while tele-shots were taken with Zuiko Digital Lenses on Olympus E-500 dSLR]
1:03pm - the sky was clear with little clouds. It was hot and humid. Preparation for the race was going on just after the roads had been temporarily closed to traffic. Everything needed to be done as quickly as possible. About two and a half hours to go.
(use scroll bars or mouse wheel to view more pictures)
1:20pm - On Dataran Merdeka Padang some kind of carnival was going on and people started to form a flock.
mari! mari!! free roti...
While others waited patiently under the shade
2:00pm - teams arrived
and more people...
2:45pm - Traffic Policemen marched forwards to their designated road junctions to control/stop traffic flows along the racing route.
3:25pm - Cyclists took position at the START grid line.
3:30pm - the 7th and Last stage of Le Tour de Langkawi 2009 pushed off.
racing in motions, actions, e-motions, tensions... and lots of manipulations and calculations too.
muscles of cavlar or somethin'?
Laps after laps... kept on charging!
...and finally the expected winner, Gianni Savio's Diquigiovanni-Androni Gioccatoli team completed what was effectively the most dominant team performance ever in Le Tour de Langkawi (LTdL) with multiple titles in their bag after the final stage of the race, the Kuala Lumpur Criterium today.
also, Asia's Best Team
The Individual Winners - the yellow, green, red and blue jerseys
Gavazzi who won four of seven stages in LTdL 2009 sealed the green jersey (sprint) with 97 points, Nolan Hoffman settled in second place with 82 points
Jose Serpa Perez, who sealed the King of the Mountain (red polka dot jersey) on previous day stage 6 with 25 points, claimed the yellow jersey today.
The only other jersey, the VW blue jersey for the Asian riders' classification winner, was taken by Le Tua Cycling Team's veteran Indonesian rider Tonton Susanto, who bagged his third ever win in that classification after doing the same in 1999 and 2002.
Last, but not least Ahmad Haidar Anuar from the national team became the best local riders after finishing in seventh place, ahead of teammate Anuar Manan.
Click HERE for Earlier Stages
[All pictures by AHW - Wide angle shots were taken with Lumix LX-3 compact digicam while tele-shots were taken with Zuiko Digital Lenses on Olympus E-500 dSLR]
