Alan Marangoni will be ready to take all his experience to support the 4 Japanese riders that will have the chance to be leaders of the race. Kohei Uchima and Masakazu Ito the most experienced among Japanese riders, Marino Kobayashi the young talent, Kazushige Kuboki the sprinter.
Tour of Taiwan, March 26th to 30th.
5 #OrangeBlue riders for 5 stages in the race of 2.1. category valid for the Asia Tour.
2 stages for sprinters, 2 for climbers and one mix stage for a road that needs a balanced team to reach both intermediate goals as the stage victories, and the one of the general ranking. For this reason the NIPPO Vini Fantini will have on the start line two Japanese riders for fastest stages as the sprinter Kazushige Kuboki and Kohei Uchima, together with Masakazu Ito and the young talent Marino Koabayashi, Under23 champion and good for mixed stages. With them all the experience of Alan Marangoni, charismatic leader, with license to win, but especially with the key role to drive the youngest Japanese riders doing the race.
On the #OrangeBlue team car the DS will be Shinichi Fukushima.
“The Tour of Taiwan represents for us a very important race in which we will race looking for the stage victory but also taking care the general ranking. We know the race very well since from last year and our leaders will be the Japanese riders as Kazushige Kuboki that will be our leader for sprints, but everyone will have is chance to made an escape.”
The complete line-up, Tour de Taiwan: Masakazu Ito, Kohei Uchima, Kazushige Kuboki, Alan Marangoni, Marino Kobayashi.