MANILA, Philippines - Mark John Lexer Galedo of 7Eleven-Roadbike Phl finished in the big group that checked in eighth in the fifth and final leg and ended up 10th overall in the Tour de Borneo in Sabah, Malaysia Thursday.
Galedo, together with Junrey Navarra, Ronda Pilipinas’ second edition champion and former King of the Mountain, arrived with the 30-man group that turned in clockings of two hours, 15 minutes, 35 seconds in the Kundasang-Penampang final stage reduced to 98.1 kms.
Mehdi Sohrabi of TPT bested Ruslan Kadimov of Uzbekistan and Joseph Cooper of HGP for lap honors although all three timed identical clockings of 2:14.48.
Galedo thus finished the five-day race with an aggregate time of 17:44.12 while Navarra, who wound up 14th overall, had 17:47.46.
TPT’s Ghader Mizbani, who topped the Le Tour in the Phl last summer, reigned supreme in 17:31.09, edging teammate Mirsamad Purseyediholakhor and Cooper, who wound up second and third in 17:31.17 and 17:37.37, respectively.
Mizbani also emerged as the tour’s King of the Mountain.
Other Filipino finishers were 7Eleven-Roadbike’s Boots Ryan Cayubit at No. 17 (17:50.54), Baler Ravina at No. 23 (17:56.08), Marcelo Felipe at No. 25 (17:58.22) and Mark Julius Bordeos at No. 27 (18:00.40) and LBC-MVPSF’s Rustom Lim at No. 22 (17:55.24), Ronald Oranza at No. 36 (18:09.41), El Joshua Carino at No. 37 (18:10.57) and Ronald Lomotos at No. 51 (18:20.00).
7Eleven-Roadbike ended up fourth overall in the team event with a total time of 53:27.55 behind TPT (52:43.43), HGP (53:00.36) and CCN (53:18.59) while LBC-MVPSF finished seventh in 53:43.53.