Samoan National Road Race Championship Sanmarinese National Road Race Championship South Korean National Road Race Championship
Samoa, San Marino and South Korea were forced to host their flat national championships together due to budget cuts. However, with the travel cost I don't think that worked out too well.
Afoa and Young battle for the Samoan Championship.
Maccagli, Olei and Scarponi the three riders from San Marino.
Jang, Jung and Min are the contenders in the South Korean Championship.
Last portion of the break caught with two laps to go. SPAR and Volvo build the sprinting trains.
Helicopter overview of the sprint trains which look quite disorganized given the language barriers. All professionals in the first fifteen positions.
SPAR amateur leading out Jang. Olei coming round the outside, turning into the inside. Afoa and Young alongside each other.
Three riders emerge out of the final corner in the lead: Young, Jang and Olei. They seem to have their respective NCs in the pocket, but the combined win is nice as well.
Gyung Gu Jang wins the race and the South Korean Championship! Darren Young wins the Samoan Championship, Federico Olei the Sanmarinese Championship!
Samoan National Time Trial Championship Sanmarinese National Time Trial Championship South Korean National Time Trial Championship
No star time trialists amongst the eight participants. South Korea possibly the closest, the other two have stand-out favorites.
Jung finishes in 1h14'02, let's compare that to his Korean rivals.
Jang nine seconds slower at split one, three second ahead at split two, four seconds behind at split three. At the finish line it turns back into nine seconds ahead. One of them was very inconsistent today.
Something Min fails to take advantage off, losing a minute to the both of them. Jang wins the TT and the RR.
Maccagli easily the fastest from San Marino, nearly three minutes faster than Scarponi and also fastest overall.
Young falls seven seconds short of Maccagli's time, but is much faster than Afoa. He also takes the double.