It was a total celebration day for XDS-Astana which, after the one-two at the Tour of Oman with Christian Scaroni and Cristián Rodríguez, also saw two of its riders occupy the top steps of the podium in the road race of the Asian Championships held today in Saudi Arabia.

At the end of the 156 kilometers from Buraydah to Unaizah, Haoyu Su finished three seconds behind his teammate and current Kazakh champion Yevgeniy Fedorov, who, with today's victory, has doubled his success from the elite time trial event a few days ago.

Completing the Kazakh team's triumph was Nicolas Vinokourov, who, second in the time trial five days ago and seventh in the overall classification of the recent AlUla Tour, confirmed his good form by finishing fourth at 1'21" from Fedorov. This placement, combined with his teammates' results in Oman and Arabia, allows the team of Alexandre Vinokourov to pocket a whopping 1,068 UCI points in a single day.

This momentarily propels XDS-Astana to the top of the team ranking, an absolutely incredible result when considering the situation the team was in just a year ago.

FINISH ORDER

1. Yevgeniy Fedorov (Kazakhstan) - 3:25:17

2. Haoyu Su (China) at 0:03

3. Abdulla Jasim Al-Ali (UAE) at 1:04

4. Nicolas Vinokourov (Kazakhstan) at 1:21

5. Jambaljamts Sainbayar (Mongolia) at 1:22

6. Yuanfeng Yu (China) at 1:22

7. Euro Kim (South Korea) at 1:22

8. Yuma Koishi (Japan) at 1:22

9. Wan Yau Vincent Lau (Hong Kong) 1:23

10. Mohammad Almutaiwei (UAE) at 1:23

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