2023 Tour de Langkawi

2023 Tour de Langkawi
2023 UCI ProSeries
Race details
Dates23–30 September 2023
Stages8
Distance1,278.1 km (794.2 mi)
Winning time29h 17' 41"
Results
Winner  Simon Carr (GBR) (EF Education–EasyPost)
  Second  Jefferson Alexander Cepeda (ECU) (EF Education–EasyPost)
  Third  Pablo Castrillo (ESP) (Equipo Kern Pharma)
Points  Arvid de Kleijn (NED) (Tudor Pro Cycling Team)
Mountains  Simon Pellaud (SUI) (Tudor Pro Cycling Team)
  Team United States EF Education–EasyPost
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The 2023 Tour de Langkawi (known as the Petronas Le Tour de Langkawi[1] for sponsorship reasons) was a road cycling stage race that took place from 23 to 30 September 2023 in Malaysia. The race is a category 2.Pro-rated event as part of the 2023 UCI ProSeries, and is the 27th edition of the Tour de Langkawi.

The 2023 race was initially taken off from the UCI calendar after the UCI received complains from teams of not receiving payments for appearance fees and flight tickets from last year's race. Malaysia National Cycling Federation vice president Datuk Amarjit Singh Gill said that the race will go on as scheduled and he will get a clearer picture of the situation during the world body's board meeting.[2][3] In August 2023, the UCI agreed to reinstate the race in its calendar, with the National Sports Council making key changes on payments to participants from this year's race onwards.[4][5]

  1. ^ "Petronas Le Tour de Langkawi". UCI. Retrieved 23 September 2023.
  2. ^ Rajan, K. (July 27, 2023). "World body removes LTdL from international calendar". New Straits Times. Retrieved July 28, 2023.
  3. ^ TIMESPORT (July 27, 2023). "LTdL will go on as scheduled". New Straits Times. Retrieved July 28, 2023.
  4. ^ TIMESPORT (August 1, 2023). "Malaysia's most famous cycling race back in UCI's good books". New Straits Times. Retrieved September 27, 2023.
  5. ^ Ishak, Fadhli (August 16, 2023). "LTdL competing teams to be paid upfront". New Straits Times. Retrieved September 27, 2023.