The Le Tour of Langkawi is a 2.HC Stage road races like Paris tours, Tour of Turkey, Tours of Utah, etc.
This year is the 23rd edition since the first in 1996.
Le Tour de Langkawi 2018, Stage 5 starts from Bentong to Raub, and finish in Cameron Highland
Five breakaway riders enter town
Leader in a green jersey blue helmet - Sprint Leader (GREEN JERSEY): Riccardo Minali of Astana ProTeam, followed by two Bardiani CSF
and an Astana rider.
The pelaton (below) with Adam De Vos (Can) Rally Cycling in Yellow jersey General Classification.
No. 62. Adam De Vos from Canada - wearing a Yellow Jersey of Rally Cycling - his right knee/leg bandaged from the last stage crashed
No 196. Artem Ovechkin from Russia rides for TSG (Terengganu Cycling Team)
7 Eleven Cliqq Roadbike Team from the Philippine
Rider from Kinan Cycling Team in a white jersey.
No 192 . Mohd Hariff Saleh from Malaysia - TSG (Terengganu Cycling Team)
No 53. Juan Felipe Osorio Arboleda from Colombia - Manzana Postobon Team
Rider from CCC Sprandi Polkowcie taking a corner
No 3. Nicholas Dlamini -from RSA (Republic South Africa -Team Dimension Data
KPSO Bianchi Asia Procycling from Korea
KFC Cycling Team from Indonesia
No 66. Eric Young from USA - Rally Cycling
No 73. Luica Pacioni from Italy - Wilier Triestina -Selle Italia
End of the peloton, left turn and then a sharp right to Jalan Dato' Abdullah
Screen captured from DJI Phantom Drone video, by Tiz-Cycling-racing
(Click HERE)The arrow shows where I was sitting and photographing the event.
Sprint 1 at Jalan Dato' Abdullah (in front of my clinic) - Pic by Shaiful Bakhtiar Abdullah
Intermediate Sprint at 27.1km Raub
1. Guardini A (Bardini), 2. Fonzi A (Willier), 3. Chirico A (Ans)
A helicopter hovering above covering the event
Cavalcade - Volkswagen cars carrying the figures of cyclist, yellow jersey for General Classification, green for Sprinter, and polka-dot for King of Mountain
Team cars sponsored by Volkswagen Malaysia with Thailand Continental Team spare bicycles.
Before taking the pictures above, I already scouted for the place that shows the best angle to represent Raub.
So, I chose a corner beside Ratha Restaurant that gives a "Pusat Perniagaan Raub" background.
Pic from Google map below:-
The picture below shows a peloton passing in front of the Rest House Raub. Pic taken from Majlis Daerah Raub, website
EDIT:
The five pictures below are from
Cycling Malaysia Facebook
The race start at Dataran Bentong, Pahang
Break away group
Artem Ovechkin ride solo to victory
Adam De Vos failed to retain his yellow jersey.
New winner at the podium
Result:
1 Artem Ovechkin (Rus) Terengganu Cycling Team - time 4:24:29
2 Benjamin Dyball (Aus) St George Continental Cycling Team 0:00:28
3 Amanuel Ghebreigzabhier Werkilul (Eri) Dimension Data 0:00:55
Spectators waiting.
The roads in Raub were closed at 11:30am and spectators started to line the roads.
I waited for 45 minutes in the hot sun, when riders arrived at 12:20pm. With just a few seconds of photo opportunities, I shot in a high-speed burst mode that I usually did in bird
photography. The camera can't keep, and 'busy' writing to CF card. I wish to have a 7D Mark II with that 9.5 frame/sec shutter speed and a bigger buffer size. Anyway, I'm satisfied with the result.
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