2006 Tour de Langkawi
The 2006 Tour de Langkawi was the 11th edition of the Tour de Langkawi, a cycling stage race that took place in Malaysia. It started on 3 February in Kuala Lumpur and ended on 12 February in Kuala Lumpur. In fact, this race was rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale as a 2.HC race on the 2005–06 UCI Asia Tour calendar.
David George of South Africa won the race, followed by Francesco Bellotti of Italy second and Gabriele Missaglia of Italy third. Steffen Radochla of Germany won the points classification category and David George won the mountains classification category. South Africa won the team classification category.
Stages
The cyclists competed in 10 stages, covering a distance of 1,161.4 kilometres. Due to the extreme weather conditions experienced during the Stage 10 of the 2006 Tour de Langkawi, the stage result was abandoned according to the decision of the College of Commissaires and the Race Organizer. All classification would be as at the end of Stage 9. However, Ángel Vallejo Domínguez who had a substantial lone lead at the time of the decision abandon was made had been awarded the stage.List of teams and riders
A total of 20 teams were invited to participate in the 2006 Tour de Langkawi. Out of the 119 riders, a total of 102 riders made it to the finish in Kuala Lumpur.; South Africa
;
; Malaysia
- Shahrulneeza Razali
- Ahmad Fallanie Ali
- Mohd Fauzan Ahmad Lutfi
- Suhardi Hassan
- Mohd Jasmin Ruslan
- Mohd Sayuti Mohd Zahit
;
;
- Julio Alberto Pérez
- Mirko Allegrini
- Guillermo Bongiorno
- Sergiy Matveyev
- Maximiliano Richeze
- Victor Espiritu
- Bernardo Luzon
- Merculio Ramos
- Albert Primero
- Sherwin Carrera
- Sherwin Diamsay
- Shawn Milne
- César Grajales
- Oleg Grishkin
- Bernard Van Ulden
- Burke Swindlehurst
- Mark Walters
- Nácor Burgos
- José Miguel Elías
- Raúl García de Mateos
- Daniel Moreno
- Xavier Tondo
- Ángel Vallejo Domínguez
; Yawadoo-Colba-ABM
- Gert Vanderaerden
- Koen Das
- Frederik Penne
- Gianni Riemslagh
- Frank Van Kuik
- Micheal Vanderaerden
;
- Elio Aggiano
- Gene Bates
- Roger Beuchat
- Andreas Dietziker
- Massimo Iannetti
- Samuele Marzoli
- Grégory Habeaux
- Jean-Claude Lebeau
- Filip Meirhaeghe
- Sven Renders
- David Verheyen
- Johan Verstrepen
- Ng Yong Li
- Loh Sea Keong
- Mohd Saiful Anuar Aziz
- Yevgeniy Yakalov
- Vyacheslav Dyadichkin
- Hari Fitrianto
; Wismilak
- Tonton Susanto
- Wawan Setyobudi
- Sulisttiyono Sulisttiyono
- Matnur Matnur
- Sama'i Sama'i
- Adi Wibowo
- Steffen Radochla
- Torsten Schmidt
- Robert Retschke
- Corey Sweet
- Tomáš Konečný
- Lars Wackernagel
- Hossein Askari
- Paul Griffin
- Lau Kuan-hua
- David McCann
- Ghader Mizbani
- Peng Kuei-hsiang