The 2008 Tour de Langkawi was the 13th edition of the

Tour de Langkawi The Tour de Langkawi is a stage race, multiple stage bicycle racing, bicycle race held in Malaysia. It is named after the archipelago Langkawi, where the first edition started and finished. The race has been held annually since 1996, primarily ...

, a cycling

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that took place in Malaysia. It started on 9 February in

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and ended on 17 February in

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. This race was rated by the

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(UCI) as a 2.HC race category and was highest ranked stage race on the

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. Moldova's

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emerged as the winner of the race, followed by

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second and Gustavo César third.

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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,

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in Merdeka Square was also brought back to the race schedule. On January 23, 2008, it was announced that the route for Stage 8

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had been replaced with a route from

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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.

Classification leadership

Final standings

General classification

Points classification

Mountains classification

Asian rider classification

Team classification

Asian team classification

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

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* Ian McCleod * David George *

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* Jacobus Venter * Nolan Hoffman * Dennis van Niekerk ; * Stefan Loefler * Alex Coutts * Erik Hoffmann * Lai Kuan-Hua * Peng Kuei-Hsiang ; *

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* Serguei Klimov *

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* Yauhen Sobal * Nikolai Trusov ; *

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* Tomoya Kano * Yoshimasa Hirose *

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* Yoshiyuki Abe * Yoshinori Iino ; * Mathieu Claude *

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* Blaise Sonnery * Stijn Vandenberg ; * Guillermo Bongiorno * Julio Alberto Pérez * Mauro Abel Richeze * Filippo Savini *

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* Matteo Priamo ; * David García Dapena * Gustavo César * Ramon Troncoso * Juan Mouron * Alejandro Paleo * Vladimir Isaichev ; *

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* Benjamin Brooks * Fabio Cazabria * Glen Chadwick *

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; * Enrico Rossi * Marco Corsini * Massimiliano Maisto * Stefan Trafelet *

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* Koji Fukushima * Shinichi Fukushima *

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* Ng Yong Li ; * Jai Crawford * Serguei Kudentsov *

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* Xing Yandong * Loh Sea Keong * Ken Onodera ; * Abbas Saeidi Tanha *

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* Hassan Maleki * Mehdi Faridi *

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* Hari Fitrianto * Rizza Abdullah Pahlavi * Vyacheslav Dyadichkin * Herwin Jaya * Vladimir Lopez *

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; Seoul Cycling Team * Park Sung-Baek * Park Seon-Ho * Gong Hyo-Suk * Lee Won-Jae *

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* Kim Gu-Hyeon ; MNCF Cycling Team * Amir Mustafa Rusli * Mohd Jasmin Ruslan * Mohd Saiful Anuar Abd Aziz * Mohamed Harrif Salleh * Thum Weng Kin * Harnizam Basri ; *

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* Peter McDonald *

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* Ko Siu Wai * Yeung Ying Hon ;

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* Suhardi Hassan * Muhammad Fauzan Ahmad Lutfi * Mohamed Zamri Salleh *

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* Mohd Faris Abd Razak * Muhamad Firdaus Daud

References

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