The 2006 Tour de Langkawi was the 11th edition of the Tour de Langkawi, a cycling

stage race A race stage, leg, or heat is a unit of a race that has been divided in several parts for the reason such as length of the distance to be covered, as in a multi-day event. Usually, such a race consists of "ordinary" stages, but sometimes stages ...

that took place in Malaysia. It started on 3 February in Kuala Lumpur and ended on 12 February in Kuala Lumpur. In fact, this race was rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) as a 2.HC (hors category) race on the

2005–06 UCI Asia Tour The 2005–06 UCI Asia Tour was the second season of the UCI Asia Tour. The season began on 28 September 2005 with the Tour of Milad du Nour and ended on 16 September 2006 with the 2006 Asian Cycling Championships. The points leader, based on the ...

calendar. David George of South Africa won the race, followed by

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of Italy second and Gabriele Missaglia of Italy third.

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of Germany won the points classification category and David George won the mountains classification category. South Africa won the team classification category.

Stages

The cyclists competed in 10 stages, covering a distance of 1,161.4 kilometres. Due to the extreme weather conditions(heavy downpour) experienced during the Stage 10 of the 2006 Tour de Langkawi, the stage result was abandoned according to the decision of the College of Commissaires and the Race Organizer. All classification would be as at the end of Stage 9. However, Ángel Vallejo Domínguez () who had a substantial lone lead at the time of the decision abandon was made had been awarded the stage.

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 20 teams were invited to participate in the 2006 Tour de Langkawi. Out of the 119 riders, a total of 102 riders made it to the finish in Kuala Lumpur. ; South Africa *

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* Jacques Fullard * David George * Rodney Green *

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; * José Serpa * Wladimir Belli * Angelo Furlan *

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* Gabriele Missaglia * Walter Pedraza ; Malaysia * Shahrulneeza Razali * Ahmad Fallanie Ali * Mohd Fauzan Ahmad Lutfi * Suhardi Hassan *

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; * Stef Clement * Andy Flickinger * Yohann Gène * Yoann Le Boulanger * Laurent Lefèvre *

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; *

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* Christophe Le Mével *

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* Saul Raisin ; *

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* Mirko Allegrini *

Guillermo Bongiorno Guillermo Rubén Bongiorno (born 29 July 1978 in Mar del Plata) is an Argentine former professional cyclist. Major results ;2003 :1st Stage 10 Tour de Langkawi ;2004 :1st Stage 10 Tour de Langkawi ;2005 :1st Gran Premio Città di Misano – Ad ...

* Sergiy Matveyev * Maximiliano Richeze ; Casino Filipino *

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* Bernardo Luzon * Merculio Ramos * Albert Primero * Sherwin Carrera * Sherwin Diamsay ; * Shawn Milne *

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* Oleg Grishkin *

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* Mark Walters ; * Nácor Burgos *

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* Raúl García de Mateos *

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* Xavier Tondo * Ángel Vallejo Domínguez ; *

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* Kristian House * Chris Newton *

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* Rob Partridge * Robin Sharman ; Yawadoo-Colba-ABM *

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* Koen Das * Frederik Penne * Gianni Riemslagh * Frank Van Kuik * Micheal Vanderaerden ; Great Britain *

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* Matt Brammeier * Mark Cavendish * Edward Clancy * Geraint Thomas * Julian Winn ; * Elio Aggiano * Gene Bates *

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* Andreas Dietziker * Massimo Iannetti *

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; * Grégory Habeaux * Jean-Claude Lebeau * Filip Meirhaeghe * Sven Renders *

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; Équipe Asia *

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* Mohd Saiful Anuar Aziz * Yevgeniy Yakalov * Vyacheslav Dyadichkin *

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; * Renaud Dion * Julien Loubet * Laurent Mangel * Carl Naibo * Erki Pütsep *

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; Wismilak * Tonton Susanto * Wawan Setyobudi * Sulisttiyono Sulisttiyono * Matnur Matnur * Sama'i Sama'i * Adi Wibowo ; Wiesenhof–Akud *

* Torsten Schmidt * Robert Retschke *

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* Tomáš Konečný * Lars Wackernagel ; * Hossein Askari * Paul Griffin * Lau Kuan-hua *

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; Japan * Takumi Beppu * Koji Fukushima * Shinichi Fukushima *

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* Kazuhiro Mori *

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References

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