KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 2 — Le Tour de Langkawi 2022 (LTdL22) organiser Human Voyage today announced that six teams with World Tour status will compete in Asia’s premier cycling tour race from October 11 to 18.
The six teams are UAE Team Emirates of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Cofidis (France), Lotto Soudal (Belgium), EF Education-EasyPost (United States), Movistar (Spain) and Astana-Qazaqstan of Kazakhstan.
LTdL22 chief operating officer Shahaizereen Abdul Hamid said they are very proud to be able to bring in six of the best professional teams in the World Team list of the International Cycling Union (UCI) this year.
“Out of these six World Teams, five will be making their debut in LTdL as Astana Qazaqstan had participated several times previously.
“The participation of these top-class teams will make this year’s edition one of the best ever organised in terms of the quality of participation of the world’s leading teams where it will present world-class competition to local and foreign cycling fans,” he said in a statement today.
Shahaizereen also said three teams with ProTeam status had already confirmed their participation in the 26th edition of the tour.
They are LTdL regulars Drone Harper-Androni Giacattoli of Italy, UNO-X Pro Cycling of Norway and Belgium’s Alpecin-Deceuninck.
“We are in the midst of confirming another team to fill the ProTeam slot,” he added.
Among the teams that will be part of the peloton this year are two local continental professional teams, namely Terengganu Polygon Cycling Team (TSG) and Team Sapura Cycling (TSC), and regional teams such as the Malaysian national team, Thailand Continental Team of Thailand and Team UKYO of Japan.
LTdL22 will start with Stage 1 from Kuala Pilah to Kuala Lumpur for a distance of 157.3 kilometres (km); Stage 2 Kuala Klawang-Raub (178.9 km); Stage 3 Putrajaya-Genting Highlands (123.7 km); Stage 4 Sabak Bernam-Meru Raya (137.9 km); Stage 5 Kuala Kangsar-Kulim (172.0 km); Stage 6 Georgetown-Alor Setar (120.8 km); Stage 7 Kuah-Gunung Raya (90.8 km) and Stage 8 Loop Langkawi (115.9 km).
— Bernama
