18th TOUR OFJAPAN, UCI 2.1,race from 17^th to 24^th May in Japan .RANKING sponsored riders and teams got a big victory in the race. Our riderswon general individual top 3 positions , general team 1 position and the Kingof Mountain.

There were total17 teams, 8 overseas and 9 Japanese, raced for overall 642.45km in 7 stages.Two sponsored teams joined it, they are TPT(Tabriz Petrochemical Team) andPKY(Pishgaman Giant team).Both of them are good at home in climbing.

Here are themain results of the race as below. Among 7 big awards,RANKING sponsored riderand team got total 5.They are in RED.

G.C.   P1  Pourseyedigolakhour Mirsamad (TPT)  P2 Emami Rahim(PKY)

         P3  Askari Hossein(PKY)

KOM       Emami Rahim(PKY)

POINT    Koshevoy Ilia(LAM)

YOUTH  ContiValerio(LAM)

G.C.T     Pishgaman Giant team