2023 Hong Kong Challenge

The 2023 Hong Kong Cyclothon UCI 1.1 Road Race was the 2nd edition of the Hong Kong Challenge one-day race. The race was held on October 23, and was rated as a 1.1 event on the UCI Asia Tour.^[1]

2023 Hong Kong Cyclothon UCI 1.1 Road Race

2023 UCI Asia Tour
Race details
Dates	October 22, 2023
Distance	103.2 km (64.13 mi)
Winning time	2h 29' 24"
Results
Winner  Lukas Pöstlberger (AUT) (Team Jayco–AlUla)   Second  Kane Richards (AUS) (ARA Skip Capital)   Third  Zdeněk Štybar (CZE) (Team Jayco–AlUla)

Lukas Pöstlberger of Austria won the race, followed by Kane Richards of Australia second and Zdeněk Štybar of Czech third.^[2]

Teams

Fourteen teams participated in the race. Each team had a maximum of six riders:^[3]

WorldTeams

• Team Jayco–AlUla

ProTeams

• Team Corratec–Selle Italia

Continental teams

• 7 Eleven–Cliqq–air21 by Roadbike Philippines
• ARA Skip Capital
• EuroCyclingTrips Pro Cycling
• Ferei Mongolia Team
• Nusantara Cycling Team
• Roojai Online Insurance
• The Hurricane & Thunder Cycling Team
• Terengganu Polygon Cycling Team
• Universe Cycling Team
• Wuzhishan Cycling Team
• X-Speed United

National teams

• Hong Kong

Results

General classification

	Rider	Team	Time
1	Lukas Pöstlberger	Team Jayco–AlUla	2h 29' 24"
2	Kane Richards	ARA Skip Capital	+ 1' 18"
3	Zdeněk Štybar	Team Jayco–AlUla	+ 1' 18"
4	Blake Quick	Team Jayco–AlUla	+ 1' 42"
5	Polychronis Tzortzakis	Roojai Online Insurance	+ 1' 42"
6	Red Walters	X-Speed United	+ 1' 42"
7	Aiman Cahyadi	Terengganu Polygon Cycling Team	+ 1' 42"
8	Rudy Porter	Team Jayco–AlUla	+ 1' 43"
9	Batsaikhany Tegshbayar	Roojai Online Insurance	+ 1' 43"
10	Nicolas Dalla Valle	Team Corratec–Selle Italia	+ 1' 43"

List of teams and riders

A total of 15 teams, including one WorldTeam, one ProTeam, 12 Continental teams, and 1 national team, were invited to participate in the 2023 SHKP Hong Kong Challenge. As the Chinese continental team Shenzhen Xidesheng Cycling Team was unable to attend, there were 76 riders in the remaining 14 teams taking part in the race.^[4]

Team Jayco–AlUla Hamish McKenzie Jesús David Peña Rudy Porter Lukas Pöstlberger Blake Quick Zdeněk Štybar Team Corratec–Selle Italia Nicolas Dalla Valle Simone Olivero Matteo Amella Giulio Masotto Attilio Viviani Samuele Zambelli 7 Eleven–Cliqq–air21 by Roadbike Philippines Junreck Carcueva Marcelo Felipe Jude Gabriel Francisco Mark Galedo Ryan Tugawin Arjay Peralta ARA Skip Capital Ngai Chung Ki William Eaves Lachlan Miller Kane Richards Dylan Proctor-Parker EuroCyclingTrips Pro Cycling Blayde Blas Siméon Green Hugo Lutz-Atkinson Thomas Peyroton Dartet Guillaume Soula

Ferei Mongolia Team Lo Chun Kit Batbaatar Batsambuu Bold Iderbold Chen Yinzheng Davaajargal Altangerel Nusantara Cycling Team Muhmmad Ridwan Abdul Gani Muhamad Herlangga Afiq Huznie Othman Adrian Sevadil Roojai Online Insurance Batsaikhany Tegshbayar Lucas Carstensen Ariya Phounsavath Adne van Engelen Kongphob Thimachai Polychronis Tzortzakis Terengganu Polygon Cycling Team Muhammad Shahmir Aiman Abdul Halim Aiman Cahyadi Wan Hamdan Irwandie Lakasek Jeroen Meijers Zuladri Amin Zulkurnain Universe Cycling Team Bart Buijk Kenny Nijssen Rick Nobel Jarri Stravers Roy Duijvesteijn Niels Verdijck

Wuzhishan Cycling Team Oliver Anderson Huang Wenbo Angus Miller Zheng Bowen X-Speed United Bernardo Gonçalves Mark Groeneveld Christoph Janssen George Radcliffe James Somerfield Red Walters Hong Kong Chu Tsun Wai Ko Siu Wai Ng Pak Hang Liang King Hung Mow Ching Yin Ng Sum Lui The Hurricane & Thunder Cycling Team Huang Guoqing Huang Yucheng Chen Xuan Ye You Liming