GIRO
KING OF THE MOUNTAINS WINNER, RUJANO IS BACK WITH ISD-NERI
07/02/2010
KUALA
LUMPUR – AFTER a low-key performance last year in Malaysia,
Pro Continental Team ISD-Neri aims to make an impact on their
second appearance in Le Tour de Langkawi 2010 with a strong
line-up with expert climber and winner of the Giro d’Italia
2005 King of Mountains jersey, José Rujano.
27 year
old Rujano, from Venezuela, who came to Malaysia with Colombia-Selle
Italia in 2006 and with Unibet.com in 2007, will be back for
the 15th edition with the Lamprorecchio, Italy registered
team along-side three riders who made their first appearance
last year, Bartosz Huzarsky (Poland), Denys Kostyuk and Vitaliy
Kondrut of Ukraine.
Their
fellow Ukrainian teammate, Ruslan Pidgorny and sole Italian
rider in the line-up, Pierpaolo Denegri will help strengthen
the ISD-Neri squad this year.
Rujano
will not need a formal introduction to local fans due of his
performance with Colombia-Selle Italia in 2005, which is still
remembered where he competed with Ryan Cox in the intense
climb to the top of Genting Highlands.
Cox
eventually won the stage and proceeded to win the 2005 overall
title, Rujano’s outstanding performance in LTDL 2005
had made him the man to look out for, a few months later he
helped Colombia-Selle Italia win Stage 19 and claimed the
King of the Mountain Jersey in Giro d'Italia.
Rujano
who had been the national time trial champion in 2007, is
also the winner of Vuelta a Colombia and Vuelta a Venezuela
last year.
After
only focusing in South American races with team Gobernacion
del Zulia, he had also represented world famous ProTour teams
Quick Step-Innergetic in 2006, Unibet.com (2007) and Caisse
d'Epargne (2008), Rujano will be one of the selected riders
in the limelight in this year’s LTDL.
Alongside
Rujano is 29 year old Polish rider, Huzarsky who ranked 34th
overall in last year’s edition. The well experienced
rider was with team MROZ and Intel Action before joining ISD
last year.
Huzarsky
won a stage in the Course de la Paix in 2003 and Baltyk-Karkonosze-Tour
in 2005, and won the Mountains Classification in Tour du Pologne
in 2005 and 2006. Among his other achievement was winning
GP Dzierzoniowa, overall winner of Szlakiem Grodow Piastowskich
and Szosami Zaglebia in 2008.
Another
more experienced ISD-Neri rider is Pidgorny, the 33 year old
won the GP Nobili in 2005, placed second in the Trofeo Matteotti
2006 and second overall in Tour of Austria 2009.
Kostyuk,
25, ranked 36th overall in LTDL 2009, previously was with
team Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf in 2004 and was familiar
with races in Asia, such as winning Stage 3 of Tour of Qinghai
Lake, China in 2006 with the Intel-Action team.
Teammates,
Kondrut, 25, are expected to be the sprinter in the line-up
with Italian rider, Denegri who’s just 23 years old.
Kostyuk, Kondrut and Denegri had raced in Tour de San Luis,
in Argentina last January in early preparation and is expected
to be ready for the challenge in Malaysia at the start of
LTDL 2010, 1-7 March.
SENARAI
PELUMBA ISD-NERI : -
JOSE RUJANO (VENEZUELA)
RUSLAN PIDGORNY (UKRAINE)
BARTOSZ HUZARSKY (POLAND)
DENYS KOSTYUK (UKRAINE)
PIERPAOLO DENEGRI (ITALY)
VITALIY KONDRUT (UKRAINE)
The
15th edition of the UCI (Hors Category) stage race will take
place from Kota Bharu - Kuala Berang (174.5km); Kuala Terengganu
- Chukai (182.3km); Pekan - Mersing (145.6km); Mersin-Parit
Sulong (163.5km); Muar - Port Dickson (116.9km) Putrajaya
- Genting Highlands (102.8km) and Kuala Kubu Baru - Dataran
Merdeka (133.7km), covering a total distance of 1019.3km.
A
total of 120 riders from 20 teams including two local teams
are expected to take part in the event, Le Tour de Langkawi
2010.
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