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Japan Cup Discussion
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| Laurens147 |
Posted on 15-04-2026 12:51
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 [PTHC] Japan Cup
Report by Imladrik
| Year | Winner | Runner-up | Third | | | | | | | | 2024 | MEURISSE Xandro | HIRSCHI Marc | CHAMPOUSSIN Clement | | | | | | | | 2023 | LOPEZ Miguel Angel | SAGAN Peter | ARERUYA Joseph | | | | | | | | 2022 | BUCHMANN Emanuel | CALMEJANE Lilian | KINOSHITA Tomohiro | | | | | | | | 2021 | YATES Simon | BOASSON HAGEN Edvald | KINOSHITA Tomohiro | | | | | | | | 2020 | LUTSENKO Alexey | KINOSHITA Tomohiro | McCARTHY Jay | | | | | | | | 2019 | PREVAR Oleksandr | KINOSHITA Tomohiro | HAUGAARD JENSEN Kristian | | | | | | | | 2018 | KINOSHITA Tomohiro | SCHREURS Maurice | ULISSI Diego | | | | | | | | 2017 | BOASSON HAGEN Edvald | VAN GARDEREN Tejay | JUUL-JENSEN Christopher | | | | | | | | 2016 | FROOME Chris | KINOSHITA Tomohiro | ULISSI Diego | | | | | | | | 2015 | McCARTHY Jay | KLEMME Dominik | COSTA Rui | | | | | | | | 2014 | DI MAGGIO Cesare | BOBRIDGE Jack | MONFORT Maxime | | | | | | | | 2013 | GINANNI Francesco | FLÜGEL Aleksandar | EFIMKIN Aleksandr | | | | | | | | 2012 | FLÜGEL Aleksandar | BELLIS Jonathan | CLAEYS Dimitri | | | | | | | | 2011 | SIUTSOU Konstantin | BERNUCCI Lorenzo | FROOME Chris | | | | | | | | 2010 | LÖVKVIST Thomas | CARRARA Matteo | DI LUCA Danilo | | | | | | | | 2009 | SCHLECK Frank | CHAVANEL Sylvain | SANCHEZ GIL Luis Leon | | | | | | | | 2008 | GHISALBERTI Sergio | SINKEWITZ Patrik | VICIOSO Angel | | | | | | |
| 1 | Xandro Meurisse | Specialized | 5h52'36 | | | | | | | | 2 | Marc Hirschi | Sauber Petronas Racing | s.t. | | | | | | | | 3 | Clement Champoussin | Rabobank | s.t. | | | | | | | | 4 | Takeaki Amezawa | MOL Cycling Team | s.t. | | | | | | | | 5 | Aurelien Paret-Peintre | Ekoi - Le Creuset | s.t. | | | | | | | | 6 | Valentin Madouas | Team Puma - SAP | + 1'06 | | | | | | | | 7 | Mauri Vansevenant | Fastned | s.t. | | | | | | | | 8 | Miguel Angel Lopez | Evonik - ELKO | s.t. | | | | | | | | 9 | Attila Valter | Aker - MOT | s.t. | | | | | | | | 10 | Robert Stannard | Everesting | s.t. | | | | | | |
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| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MM | HL | ST | RS | RC | AC |  Lopez | Miguel Angel | COL | 31 | 82 | 84 | 76 | 74 | 74 | 78 |  Hirschi | Marc | SWI | 27 | 79 | 81 | 78 | 78 | 77 | 75 |  Vansevenant | Mauri | BEL | 26 | 78 | 81 | 79 | 78 | 71 | 80 |
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| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MM | HL | ST | RS | RC | AC |  Sosa | Ivan | COL | 28 | 79 | 78 | 75 | 79 | 80 | 74 |  Amezawa | Takeaki | JPN | 30 | 79 | 77 | 76 | 78 | 80 | 75 |  Stannard | Robert | AUS | 27 | 77 | 81 | 75 | 76 | 74 | 78 |  Schmid | Mauro | SWI | 26 | 78 | 79 | 73 | 78 | 73 | 79 |  Pidcock | Thomas | GBR | 26 | 76 | 76 | 75 | 78 | 73 | 81 |
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| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MM | HL | ST | RS | RC | AC |  Aleotti | Giovanni | ITA | 26 | 76 | 78 | 78 | 77 | 75 | 75 |  Eiking | Odd Christian | NOR | 31 | 75 | 81 | 78 | 74 | 71 | 76 |  Van Niekerk | Aidan | RSA | 28 | 78 | 80 | 72 | 75 | 76 | 74 |  Aranburu | Alex | ESP | 30 | 79 | 80 | 70 | 79 | 74 | 71 |  Romo | Javier | ESP | 26 | 76 | 80 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 71 |  Skujins | Toms | LAT | 34 | 75 | 81 | 77 | 74 | 70 | 73 |
Other leaders
| Last name | First name | Country | Age | MM | HL | ST | RS | RC | AC |  Nikiema | Bachirou | BUR | 28 | 74 | 77 | 72 | 74 | 72 | 76 |  Paret-Peintre | Aurelien | FRA | 29 | 77 | 77 | 73 | 75 | 73 | 74 |  Gaudu | David | FRA | 29 | 75 | 78 | 78 | 75 | 71 | 70 |  De Plus | Laurens | BEL | 30 | 78 | 79 | 74 | 73 | 71 | 72 |  Ardila | Andres Camilo | COL | 26 | 81 | 80 | 69 | 70 | 74 | 75 |  Formolo | Davide | ITA | 33 | 79 | 79 | 75 | 75 | 72 | 70 |  Kelderman | Wilco | NED | 34 | 75 | 80 | 77 | 72 | 70 | 69 |  Quita | Ronnilan | PHI | 30 | 76 | 77 | 75 | 75 | 73 | 74 |  Buchmann | Emanuel | GER | 33 | 78 | 80 | 71 | 72 | 72 | 71 |  Pira | Yesid Albeiro | COL | 26 | 76 | 71 | 68 | 71 | 73 | 69 |
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 15-04-2026 13:10
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Pidcock hasn't really performed as well as we know he can in the hills. Filling in for Areruya again here, hoping for a great result 
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| alexkr00 |
Posted on 15-04-2026 13:14
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Not enough race days for Champoussin to try to repeat last year's podium, but we do have Formolo to keep the flag high.
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| knockout |
Posted on 15-04-2026 13:15
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This is far from a Lopez route imo and last year was underwhelming as well. Still, hilly and him on the startlist raises hope
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Posted on 17-04-2026 18:14
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| kandesbunzler26 |
Posted on 15-04-2026 13:17
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Seeing Meurisse or Calmejane on the podium here means there's some hope APP could also do well. He could also finish in 20th, so thrilled how the race will unfold.
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 15-04-2026 13:17
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Hopefully the startlist is strong enough that Hirschi doesn't have to burn himself out and can get a strong result here.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 15-04-2026 14:24
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Probably too long for Aranburu to have success here, we'll just see what happens! Thanks for the preview!
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 15-04-2026 14:24
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Probably too long for Aranburu to have success here, we'll just see what happens! Thanks for the preview!
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| ember |
Posted on 15-04-2026 20:34
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First race for Romo as our clear leader. Hopeful for a top 10, which would be a very good result. Hoping his good stamina benefits him, eventhough his acceleration is an obvious weakness. Fingers crossed we get to see him in the mix and action, whatever the result is in the end! |
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 15-04-2026 22:15
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We'll see how Aidan feels here. Seems tough enough for him
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| Gustavovskiy |
Posted on 15-04-2026 23:02
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Strong startlist for our 2nd goal race of the year. Stannard hasn't been stellar in one day races, but we need him to at least keep up with Hirschi here in our anti-relegation campainha.
Thanks for the preview Laurens!
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 16-04-2026 01:02
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Experimenting with what works for Sosa this year. Hallstat and Milan - Torino both worked pretty well. He will be fighting with Simmons for these races next year so pay attention Ivan.
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| Jakstar22 |
Posted on 16-04-2026 03:51
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I’d like to see Kelderman have a good race here! He definitely has shown he can!
Good luck everyone. Thank for the preview!
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| Fabianski |
Posted on 16-04-2026 20:54
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Ouch... It's not just the lack of stamina that hurts Schmid this year - I think the lack of race intelligence is much worse. Looks like he got a double-downgrade... Really hurts to see him drop from a good rider who can win in PTHC to a pretty useless money sink...
At least Hirschi did really well here, very important points for sammy!
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| Heine |
Posted on 16-04-2026 21:44
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Congrats roturn and sammy! Important pts for sauber fighting relegation
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| Marcovdw |
Posted on 16-04-2026 22:21
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Yeah that was not it.
Congrats roturn, thanks Imladrik
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| sammyt93 |
Posted on 16-04-2026 22:57
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Hirschi is having another really strong end to his season, looks like he really wants us to stay up.
Congrats Roturn on the win.
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| jandal7 |
Posted on 17-04-2026 00:13
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Fine enough race for Pidcock, sure he'd have loved to be up the road challenging Mauri for the win but when the top guys make it a true puncheur's classic he just isn't on that level and fair enough. It made for a very entertaining race, one of the better ones this season in the hilly classics by my recollection. Thanks for delivering that through the report Imladrik and congrats roturn on the win and also sammy for a big race for you! 
Decent depth with Dzhus and Tesfaye Hashimoto, don't always see that from us in the punchy classics. Maybe Pidcock is a less exacting leader than Areruya 
24/02/21 - kandesbunzler said “I don't drink famous people."
15/08/22 - SotD said "Your [jandal's] humour is overrated"
11/06/24 - knockout said "Winning is fine I guess. Truth be told this felt completely unimportant."
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| Ulrich Ulriksen |
Posted on 17-04-2026 01:21
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So maybe Simmons next year. No really, Sosa wasn't bad, didn't have a lot of protection. Amezawa proved a race like this could suit him on a good day.
Congrats to Roturn and thanks for the report.
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| baseballlover312 |
Posted on 17-04-2026 02:04
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Very nice race for Aranburu actually. Just when I think I'm out, he pulls me back in. Didn't think he had a shot given the race length, but he actually stayed in a solid position without expending too much, and managed to get a very nice 8th place out of it.
Depth was great too. Gregaard in 21st with another great performance for his stats. He always overperforms in these long hilly classics thanks to his stamina, though Aranburu proved stamina in not definitive. Hellemose and Gogl also in the top 50 makes this a pretty great race for us compared to expectations.
What a crazy ride by Trakhov, must have been fun for Tinkoff even if he ends up outside the top 5 in the end.
Thanks for the report and congrats to roturn!
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