Tour of Taihu Lake 2016 – Stage 2 [FULL STAGE]

November 07, 2016

Tour of Taihu Lake 2016 – Stage 2– Changxing Government Square – Sheraton Huzhou – 139 km

The Tour of Taihu Lake is a staged cycling race held in China annually in November. It has been held since 2010, but the first edition was a one-day race

Italy’s Jakub Mareczko of Willier-Southeast claimed his eleventh victory of the 2016 season as he doubled up at the Tour of Taihu Lake to move into the overall lead after stage 2 in front of the monumental Moon Hotel known as a landmark for the Zhejiang province. In another bunch gallop under the rain, he outsprinted Emils Liepins of Rietumu-Delfin and his arch-rival Nicolas Marini from Nippo-Vini Fantini.

“Today’s finale was different than yesterday’s with a false flat finish, Mareczko explained, so we paid attention to not coming out of the box too early, otherwise we’d have risked to be overtaken in the last few meters. I’m very happy with this win because it gives back the leader’s jersey I brought home last year and this was my only opportunity to get it this year as it is an uphill finish tomorrow. To reach eleven victories makes it a good year for me but there are more stages to come and hopefully more success for me at the Tour of Taihu Lake.”

Already the most successful Italian rider by the numbers this year, Mareczko has Peter Sagan’s total of fourteen wins in sight to equal the Slovakian superstar as the world’s most successful pro cyclist of the 2016 season.

North Carolina’s Martz Alder (Attaque Team Gusto), Slovakia’s Jozef Palcak (Dukla Banska Bystrica) and Guillermo Corella (Start Vaxes) formed the breakaway of the day until 10km to go when Vitalii Popkov (Lvshan Landscape) tried his luck for the second day in a row.

“I noticed that Willier rode pretty hard to get the previous break back,” most aggressive rider of the day Alder described. “They kind of sat up. Two guys went. I just followed. It became a group of six. We worked OK together till we got to the sprints. It took us time to really work together. I ended up attacking. We got a nice group going but it was pretty obvious that Willier would bring us back but you never know. It didn’t start raining until we got caught. We were more hoping for a wind change but it just rained so we had no chance to succeed. However, this Tour of Taihu Lake is awesome: great organization and good hotels. I love it.”

“I wanted to win but Mareczko is very fast,” declared second placed Liepins. “If the finish line was ten meters further, maybe I could have won. My team is made of strong guys, so we led the sprint from far out and I would have liked the sprint to last even longer. We are two sprinters, Maris Bogdanovics and myself, we help each other. We decided only within the last kilometer who we’d sprint for today. I’m here looking for my first international victory.”

While 24-year-old Liepins raised his profile, Marini was satisfied with one more podium placing after his second place in Wuxi. “It was a head wind to finish and we rode slowly so we were all fresh”, the Italian noted. “It started fast but as soon as the breakaway was gone, Southeast and us controlled for a bunch sprint finish. I couldn’t do any better today. Tomorrow I’ll take it easy because it’s an uphill finish, after that I’ll try to win a stage.”

Stage 3 from Anji Economic Development Zone to Tianhuangping is an unprecedented route at the Tour of Taihu Lake with an 18km long climb to finish at 860 metres above sea level.

Results :
1 Jakub Mareczko (Ita) Wilier Triestina-Southeast 3:08:05
2 Emils Liepins (Lat) Rietumu-Delfin
3 Nicolas Marini (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini
4 Maris Bogdanovics (Lat) Rietumu-Delfin
5 Roberto Pinheiro Da Silva (Bra) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
6 Jingbiao Zhao (Chn) Hengxiang Cycling Team
7 Yehor Dementyev (Ukr) ISD – Jorbi Continental Team
8 Luke Parker (Aus) Attaque Team Gusto
9 Yuriy Metlushenko (Ukr) Jilun – Shakeland Cycling Team
10 Dusan Kalaba (Srb) Start Vaxes – Partizan Cycling Team
11 Ben Hill (Aus) Attaque Team Gusto
12 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
13 Massimo Graziato (Ita) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
14 Quentin Valognes (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk
15 Simin Adamek (Cze) Team Dukla Praha
16 Cristopher Mansilla Almonacid (Chi) Start Vaxes – Partizan Cycling Team
17 Erdenesuren Munkhtulga (Mgl) Ning Xia Sports Lottery Livall Cycling Team
18 Francisco Ramon Chamorro Pana (Arg) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
19 Martijn Verschoor (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk
20 Rafael Andriato (Bra) Wilier Triestina-Southeast
21 Ruslan Karimov (Uzb) RTS – Santic Racing Team
22 Mahdi Rajabikaboodcheshmeh (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team
23 Riccardo Stacchiotti (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini
24 Artur Tsvetkov (Ukr) Team Lvshan Landscape
25 Maksym Vasilyev (Ukr) Team Lvshan Landscape
26 Jos Koop (Ned) Start Vaxes – Partizan Cycling Team
27 Konrad Tomasiak (Pol) Start Vaxes – Partizan Cycling Team
28 Kwun Wa Law (HKg) HKSI Pro Cycling Team
29 Feng Qiao (Chn) Ning Xia Sports Lottery Livall Cycling Team
30 Siarhei Papok (Blr) Minsk Cycling Club
31 Peeter Pruus (Est) Rietumu-Delfin
32 Leonardo Fabio Duque (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
33 Tino Thömel (Ger) RTS – Santic Racing Team
34 Burr Ho (HKg) HKSI Pro Cycling Team
35 Chunlong Zhang (Chn) Ning Xia Sports Lottery Livall Cycling Team
36 Daniele Colli (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini
37 Juntao Meng (Chn) Team Lvshan Landscape
38 Cristobal Olavarria (Chi) Jilun – Shakeland Cycling Team
39 Eduard Michael Grosu (Rom) Nippo – Vini Fantini
40 Lucas De Rossi (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
41 Deins Kanepejs (Lat) Rietumu-Delfin
42 Kristian Zimany (Svk) Dukla Banska Bystrica
43 Rinat Udod (Ukr) ISD – Jorbi Continental Team
44 Yonder Godoy (Ven) Wilier Triestina-Southeast
45 Rik Van Ijzendoorn (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk
46 Artem Tesler (Ukr) Team Lvshan Landscape
47 Gabriel Machado Da Silva (Bra) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
48 Juraj Lajcha (Svk) Dukla Banska Bystrica
49 Vladimir Lopez (Col) Ning Xia Sports Lottery Livall Cycling Team
50 Matteo Draperi (Ita) Wilier Triestina-Southeast
51 Sergiy Grechyn (Ukr) Jilun – Shakeland Cycling Team
52 Sofiane Merignat (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
53 Anton Ivashkin (Blr) Minsk Cycling Club
54 Ying Hon Yeung (Chn) Hengxiang Cycling Team
55 Cameron Bayly (Aus) Attaque Team Gusto
56 Giuseppe Fonzi (Ita) Wilier Triestina-Southeast
57 Andris Vosekalns (Lat) Rietumu-Delfin
58 Yong Jian Wu (Chn) Jilun – Shakeland Cycling Team
59 Volodymyr Gomeniuk (Ukr) Team Lvshan Landscape
60 Sven Van Luijk (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
61 Francisco Jarley Colorado Hernandez (Col) RTS – Santic Racing Team
62 Guangtong Ma (Chn) Hengxiang Cycling Team
63 Ali Khademi (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team
64 Altanzul Altansukh (Mgl) Ning Xia Sports Lottery Livall Cycling Team
65 Alex Diniz Correia (Bra) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
66 Jan Andrej Cully (Svk) Dukla Banska Bystrica
67 Ondrej Vendolsky (Cze) Team Dukla Praha
68 Akramjon Sunnatov (Uzb) XDS
69 Peter Schulting (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
70 Wen Chung Huang (Tpe) Attaque Team Gusto
71 Guy Kalma (NZl) Attaque Team Gusto
72 Zheng Zhang (Chn) Hengxiang Cycling Team
73 Abolfazl Nazari Daghalian (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team
74 Enkhtaivan Bolor-Erdene (Mgl) Ning Xia Sports Lottery Livall Cycling Team
75 Matthias Van Aken (Bel) Start Vaxes – Partizan Cycling Team
76 Karim Khorrami (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team
77 Benjamin Harvey (Aus) St George Merida Cycling Team
78 Meiyin Wang (Chn) Hengxiang Cycling Team
79 Patrik Tybor (Svk) Dukla Banska Bystrica
80 Carlos Alexandre Manarelli (Bra) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
81 Behnam Ariyan (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team
82 Christopher Williams (Aus) Team Novo Nordisk
83 Murilo Ferraz Affonso (Bra) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
84 Alireza Asgharzadeh (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team
85 Timur Maleev (Ukr) ISD – Jorbi Continental Team
86 Vitalii Popkov (Rus) Team Lvshan Landscape
87 Patrick Sharpe (Aus) St George Merida Cycling Team
88 Jay Dutton (Aus) St George Merida Cycling Team
89 Brodie Talbot (Aus) St George Merida Cycling Team
90 Manabu Ishibashi (Jpn) Nippo – Vini Fantini
91 Muradjan Halmuratov (Uzb) XDS
92 Rene Guillermo Corella Braun (Mex) Start Vaxes – Partizan Cycling Team
93 Ilya Davidenok (Kaz) RTS – Santic Racing Team
94 Hiu Fung Choy (HKg) HKSI Pro Cycling Team
95 Mauricio Ortega Ramirez (Col) RTS – Santic Racing Team
96 Thomas Vaubourzeix (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
97 Gerd De Keijzer (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk
98 Kanstantsin Klimiankou (Blr) Minsk Cycling Club
99 Michal Kohout (Cze) Team Dukla Praha
100 Sergey Medvedev (Uzb) XDS
101 Armands Becis (Lat) Rietumu-Delfin
102 Abdullojon Akparov (Uzb) XDS
103 Dostonbek Ollamov (Uzb) XDS
104 Ho San Chiu (HKg) HKSI Pro Cycling Team
105 Hoo Fung Ka (HKg) HKSI Pro Cycling Team
106 Darcy Ellerm-Norton (NZl) St George Merida Cycling Team
107 Dilmurdjon Siddikov (Uzb) XDS
108 Rueda Tobon Jefferson (Col) Jilun – Shakeland Cycling Team
109 Oleksii Kasianov (Ukr) Jilun – Shakeland Cycling Team
110 Victor Nino Corredor (Col) RTS – Santic Racing Team
111 Thomas Rabou (Ned) Hengxiang Cycling Team
112 Wan Yau Lau (HKg) HKSI Pro Cycling Team
113 Michal Kesl (Cze) Team Dukla Praha
114 Jan Kraus (Cze) Team Dukla Praha 0:00:32
115 Roman Seliverstov (Ukr) ISD – Jorbi Continental Team 0:00:34
116 Jozef Palcak (Svk) Dukla Banska Bystrica
117 Mirko Tedeschi (Ita) Wilier Triestina-Southeast 0:00:42
118 Valerii Taradai (Ukr) ISD – Jorbi Continental Team 0:00:47
119 Tomas Harag (Svk) Dukla Banska Bystrica
120 Corentin Cherhal (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk
121 Martz Alder (USA) Attaque Team Gusto
122 Nicholas Woods (Aus) St George Merida Cycling Team
123 Adne Van Engelen (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
124 Vladyslav Kreminskyi (Ukr) ISD – Jorbi Continental Team
125 Oleksandr Golovash (Ukr) Minsk Cycling Club 0:01:54
126 Yauhen Sobal (Blr) Minsk Cycling Club 0:02:18
127 Matyá_ Strupek (Cze) Team Dukla Praha 0:02:52
128 Genki Yamamoto (Jpn) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:03:30
129 Milan Veltman (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
DNF Stanislau Bazhkou (Blr) Minsk Cycling Club

General classification after stage 2 :
1 Jakub Mareczko (Ita) Wilier Triestina-Southeast 5:36:00
2 Nicolas Marini (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:00:06
3 Karim Khorrami (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team 0:00:07
4 Cameron Bayly (Aus) Attaque Team Gusto
5 Deins Kanepejs (Lat) Rietumu-Delfin
6 Riccardo Stacchiotti (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:00:08
7 Yonder Godoy (Ven) Wilier Triestina-Southeast 0:00:09
8 Ilya Davidenok (Kaz) RTS – Santic Racing Team 0:00:10
9 Peeter Pruus (Est) Rietumu-Delfin 0:00:11
10 Giuseppe Fonzi (Ita) Wilier Triestina-Southeast 0:00:12
11 Patrik Tybor (Svk) Dukla Banska Bystrica
12 Christopher Williams (Aus) Team Novo Nordisk
13 Timur Maleev (Ukr) ISD – Jorbi Continental Team 0:00:13
14 Jingbiao Zhao (Chn) Hengxiang Cycling Team
15 Meiyin Wang (Chn) Hengxiang Cycling Team
16 Ben Hill (Aus) Attaque Team Gusto 0:00:14
17 Tino Thömel (Ger) RTS – Santic Racing Team
18 Maris Bogdanovics (Lat) Rietumu-Delfin 0:00:16
19 Thomas Vaubourzeix (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
20 Peter Schulting (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
21 Murilo Ferraz Affonso (Bra) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour 0:00:17
22 Enkhtaivan Bolor-Erdene (Mgl) Ning Xia Sports Lottery Livall Cycling Team
23 Vitalii Popkov (Rus) Team Lvshan Landscape 0:00:18
24 Leonardo Fabio Duque (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 0:00:19
25 Siarhei Papok (Blr) Minsk Cycling Club 0:00:21
26 Andris Vosekalns (Lat) Rietumu-Delfin
27 Zheng Zhang (Chn) Hengxiang Cycling Team 0:00:22
28 Altanzul Altansukh (Mgl) Ning Xia Sports Lottery Livall Cycling Team
29 Rafael Andriato (Bra) Wilier Triestina-Southeast
30 Lucas De Rossi (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM 0:00:23
31 Armands Becis (Lat) Rietumu-Delfin 0:00:24
32 Eduard Michael Grosu (Rom) Nippo – Vini Fantini
33 Volodymyr Gomeniuk (Ukr) Team Lvshan Landscape
34 Benjamin Harvey (Aus) St George Merida Cycling Team
35 Darcy Ellerm-Norton (NZl) St George Merida Cycling Team 0:00:25
36 Roberto Pinheiro Da Silva (Bra) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
37 Patrick Sharpe (Aus) St George Merida Cycling Team 0:00:26
38 Maksym Vasilyev (Ukr) Team Lvshan Landscape
39 Yehor Dementyev (Ukr) ISD – Jorbi Continental Team
40 Martijn Verschoor (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk
41 Ondrej Vendolsky (Cze) Team Dukla Praha
42 Mahdi Rajabikaboodcheshmeh (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team 0:00:27
43 Rene Guillermo Corella Braun (Mex) Start Vaxes – Partizan Cycling Team
44 Muradjan Halmuratov (Uzb) XDS
45 Guy Kalma (NZl) Attaque Team Gusto
46 Mauricio Ortega Ramirez (Col) RTS – Santic Racing Team 0:00:28
47 Emils Liepins (Lat) Rietumu-Delfin
48 Brodie Talbot (Aus) St George Merida Cycling Team 0:00:30
49 Gabriel Machado Da Silva (Bra) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour 0:00:31
50 Alex Diniz Correia (Bra) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
51 Kanstantsin Klimiankou (Blr) Minsk Cycling Club
52 Marco Zanotti (Ita) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
53 Anton Ivashkin (Blr) Minsk Cycling Club 0:00:32
54 Michal Kohout (Cze) Team Dukla Praha
55 Behnam Ariyan (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team
56 Jan Andrej Cully (Svk) Dukla Banska Bystrica
57 Artem Tesler (Ukr) Team Lvshan Landscape
58 Sven Van Luijk (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team 0:00:33
59 Abolfazl Nazari Daghalian (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team
60 Oleksii Kasianov (Ukr) Jilun – Shakeland Cycling Team
61 Thomas Rabou (Ned) Hengxiang Cycling Team
62 Sergiy Grechyn (Ukr) Jilun – Shakeland Cycling Team 0:00:34
63 Konrad Tomasiak (Pol) Start Vaxes – Partizan Cycling Team 0:00:35
64 Matteo Draperi (Ita) Wilier Triestina-Southeast
65 Guangtong Ma (Chn) Hengxiang Cycling Team
66 Francisco Ramon Chamorro Pana (Arg) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
67 Vladyslav Kreminskyi (Ukr) ISD – Jorbi Continental Team 0:00:36
68 Wen Chung Huang (Tpe) Attaque Team Gusto
69 Jozef Palcak (Svk) Dukla Banska Bystrica 0:00:38
70 Ying Hon Yeung (Chn) Hengxiang Cycling Team
71 Victor Nino Corredor (Col) RTS – Santic Racing Team
72 Martz Alder (USA) Attaque Team Gusto 0:00:39
73 Francisco Jarley Colorado Hernandez (Col) RTS – Santic Racing Team
74 Jay Dutton (Aus) St George Merida Cycling Team 0:00:40
75 Michal Kesl (Cze) Team Dukla Praha
76 Chunlong Zhang (Chn) Ning Xia Sports Lottery Livall Cycling Team
77 Manabu Ishibashi (Jpn) Nippo – Vini Fantini
78 Cristopher Mansilla Almonacid (Chi) Start Vaxes – Partizan Cycling Team 0:00:41
79 Carlos Alexandre Manarelli (Bra) Funvic Soul Cycles – Carrefour
80 Rueda Tobon Jefferson (Col) Jilun – Shakeland Cycling Team
81 Erdenesuren Munkhtulga (Mgl) Ning Xia Sports Lottery Livall Cycling Team
82 Luke Parker (Aus) Attaque Team Gusto
83 Yuriy Metlushenko (Ukr) Jilun – Shakeland Cycling Team 0:00:42
84 Gerd De Keijzer (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk
85 Hoo Fung Ka (HKg) HKSI Pro Cycling Team
86 Sergey Medvedev (Uzb) XDS
87 Rik Van Ijzendoorn (Ned) Team Novo Nordisk 0:00:43
88 Artur Tsvetkov (Ukr) Team Lvshan Landscape
89 Nicholas Woods (Aus) St George Merida Cycling Team 0:00:45
90 Burr Ho (HKg) HKSI Pro Cycling Team
91 Quentin Valognes (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk 0:00:46
92 Dilmurdjon Siddikov (Uzb) XDS
93 Simin Adamek (Cze) Team Dukla Praha 0:00:50
94 Wan Yau Lau (HKg) HKSI Pro Cycling Team
95 Massimo Graziato (Ita) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
96 Akramjon Sunnatov (Uzb) XDS
97 Rinat Udod (Ukr) ISD – Jorbi Continental Team 0:00:51
98 Vladimir Lopez (Col) Ning Xia Sports Lottery Livall Cycling Team
99 Daniele Colli (Ita) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:00:53
100 Ali Khademi (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team
101 Juntao Meng (Chn) Team Lvshan Landscape
102 Dusan Kalaba (Srb) Start Vaxes – Partizan Cycling Team 0:00:54
103 Adne Van Engelen (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team
104 Kristian Zimany (Svk) Dukla Banska Bystrica
105 Cristobal Olavarria (Chi) Jilun – Shakeland Cycling Team 0:00:55
106 Hiu Fung Choy (HKg) HKSI Pro Cycling Team
107 Alireza Asgharzadeh (IRI) Tabriz Petrochemical CCN Team
108 Sofiane Merignat (Fra) Delko Marseille Provence KTM
109 Jan Kraus (Cze) Team Dukla Praha
110 Yong Jian Wu (Chn) Jilun – Shakeland Cycling Team 0:00:56
111 Juraj Lajcha (Svk) Dukla Banska Bystrica 0:00:59
112 Matthias Van Aken (Bel) Start Vaxes – Partizan Cycling Team 0:01:00
113 Dostonbek Ollamov (Uzb) XDS 0:01:02
114 Abdullojon Akparov (Uzb) XDS 0:01:03
115 Ruslan Karimov (Uzb) RTS – Santic Racing Team 0:01:04
116 Corentin Cherhal (Fra) Team Novo Nordisk 0:01:06
117 Ho San Chiu (HKg) HKSI Pro Cycling Team 0:01:09
118 Feng Qiao (Chn) Ning Xia Sports Lottery Livall Cycling Team 0:01:15
119 Roman Seliverstov (Ukr) ISD – Jorbi Continental Team 0:01:33
120 Kwun Wa Law (HKg) HKSI Pro Cycling Team 0:01:37
121 Oleksandr Golovash (Ukr) Minsk Cycling Club 0:01:57
122 Mirko Tedeschi (Ita) Wilier Triestina-Southeast 0:02:01
123 Tomas Harag (Svk) Dukla Banska Bystrica 0:02:07
124 Valerii Taradai (Ukr) ISD – Jorbi Continental Team 0:02:17
125 Yauhen Sobal (Blr) Minsk Cycling Club 0:02:53
126 Matyá_ Strupek (Cze) Team Dukla Praha 0:03:29
127 Milan Veltman (Ned) Parkhotel Valkenburg Continental Team 0:04:06
128 Genki Yamamoto (Jpn) Nippo – Vini Fantini 0:04:14
129 Jos Koop (Ned) Start Vaxes – Partizan Cycling Team 0:12:04