Cyclist Ferinanto from the Polygon Sweet Nice (PSN) Team yesterday won the third leg of the 2002 Tour de Taiwan race.
The leg was raced in the city of Hualien.
The Indonesian cyclist won the race in a time of one hour, 23 minutes and 52 seconds.
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He also won the first and fifth sprint stages yesterday.
Juergen Kottula from the Merida International Team won the second sprint stage. Hong Kong's Wong Ngaiching (
Among the four winners of the five sprint stages yesterday, Siman received the most applaud from the audience in Hualien for his courage to get back on his bike and push on with the Tour after he was seriously injured the day before. The cyclist broke two of his ribs in an accident on Wednesday, but he insisted on keeping on competing in the race.
Meanwhile, a number of contestants yesterday complained to the Japanese judge Tatsuo Hayashi that Ferinanto was purposely blocking other players during the race.
Although Ferinanto denied the charges and maintained that he never tried to stop any of his opponents, the cyclist was later fined 50 francs and 10 penalty seconds by the Japanese judge.
The 6-day competition is scheduled to move into the mountainous areas of central Taiwan today.
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