7 top ten placement after 8 stages for the #OrangeBlue riders in the Tour de Korea. Best placement is the 2° position of Shiki Kuroeda in the sprint of the 6° stage. The young Japanese talent arrived in the top ten 4 times, gaining also the 5° place in the points final ranking. General Ranking top ten also for Genki Yamamoto, 6° overall.
The Tour of Korea is finished yesterday, 14 of June, with a NIPPO Vini Fantini constantly in the “top ten”. With 7 placement in the first 10 position on a total of 8 stages of the Tour of Korea. The top ten is a #OrangeBlue stable presence also in the finals rankings. 6° place for Genki Yamamoto in the General Ranking, 4° place of Genki Yamamoto in the GPM final ranking, 5° place in the points ranking for Shiki Kuroeda and top ten also in the team ranking.
The team comes back from the Tour of Korea with more guarantee about his riders, expecially from the young japanese riders that have demonstrated that only the victory was missing, but that the fact to be among best riders of the competition was a fact. The victory come really close, expecially with Shiki Kuroeda 2° place in a sprint and twice 4°, and with Nicolas Marini, 4° place in the eight stage.
On the team car to lead the team there was Hiroshi Daimon that is really satisfied by his riders: “After the great performance of the team in the Tour of Japan, also in Korea the team has demonstrated to have great talent. If in Japan we gain also the first stage of the podium in a sprint with Marini, in Korea we have demonstrated a great continuity stage after stage. I’m really satisfied of Shiki Kuroeda performance that went close to the victory many times with 4 top ten placement. Genki Yamamoto, another japanese rider of our team was good to stay in the general ranking until the end, wearing also the GPM leader jersey and fighting for the leader jersey until the end. I want to congratulate with Caleb Ewan from Orica GreenEDGE for his victory, but I want also congratulate with all the NIPPO Vini Fantini riders, that have worked has a team and honored each stage fighting for the victory.